Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, and 6
Gathering with Equals becomes Overwhelmed
What this change means
The bright meeting under heaven becomes a lake drained of water as four lines move. In 47 Overwhelmed, the still lines carry the guidance. The fourth line says helping others in hardship matters, but that help has to come quickly to be of use. The fifth says things improve little by little thanks to your habit of helping, and that spiritual resources are a great support now. So the community you counted on is under pressure, and you may feel hemmed in yourself. Don't wait for ideal conditions before acting for others; offer what you can, promptly. That habit of service, kept up even when you're struggling, is what tends to turn things around. Turn inward, too: an inner light can hold you up when outer support is thin.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 4 of 47 Overwhelmed, which stays still
Helping others in times of hardship matters, but that help has to be quick to do its job.
Comes slowly, slowly, hard pressed in a metal carriage. Distress, but there is an end.
- Line 5 of 47 Overwhelmed, which stays still
Little by little things will improve, thanks to your habit of helping others. Spiritual resources will be a great help now.
Nose cut off, feet cut off. Hard pressed by the red sash. Little by little relief comes. It is favorable to make sacrifices.
- The judgment of 13 Gathering with Equals
It's a time of meetings with people of a high nature like yours, with whom you can carry out important tasks and projects. Relationships built on trust and mutual support take shape. Large, innovative projects are favored.
Community in the open country. Success. It is favorable to cross the great river. The constancy of the noble person is favorable.
- Line 1 of 13 Gathering with Equals
Shared projects should be carried out in the open, with nothing hidden.
Community at the gate. No fault.
- Line 2 of 13 Gathering with Equals
If you join with people who try to exclude others, the projects won't move forward.
Community within the clan. Distress.
- Line 3 of 13 Gathering with Equals
If you let distrust grow in your relationships and let the people in them hide things from each other, your actions will fail.
Hiding soldiers in the brush, climbing the high hill. For three years, no rising.
- Line 6 of 13 Gathering with Equals
You're in a favorable position from which you can reach agreements with all kinds of people.
Community on the outskirts. No regret.
- The judgment of 47 Overwhelmed
Things are very much against you: the wrong people surround you, no one believes what you say, and obstacles hem you in. All you can do is accept it and wait for better conditions to come. Your only resource is the inner light that lives in you; turn to that strength to hold you up right now.
Success. For the great person, constancy brings good fortune. No fault. They speak and are not believed.
The trigrams
The way back
47 Overwhelmed → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 1, 2, 3, and 6
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
- 59Release from Obstacleslines 1, 2, 3, and 4
- 64Transitionlines 1, 2, 3, and 5
- 18Loss, Then Gainlines 1, 2, 4, and 5
- 23The Falllines 1, 3, 4, and 5
- 41Decreaselines 2, 3, 4, and 5
- 48Right Actionlines 1, 2, 4, and 6
- 8Unionlines 1, 3, 4, and 6
- 60Thriftlines 2, 3, 4, and 6
- 32What Lastslines 1, 2, 5, and 6
- 16Passionlines 1, 3, 5, and 6
- 54A Subordinate Rolelines 2, 3, 5, and 6
- 15Simplicitylines 1, 4, 5, and 6
- 11Well-Beinglines 2, 4, 5, and 6
- 24Coming Backlines 3, 4, 5, and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.