Transformation · lines 1 and 3
Gathering with Equals becomes Decline
What this change means
With the first and third lines moving, the Fire below goes dark and becomes Earth. The third line carries the weight: distrust and hidden dealings are spreading through your relationships, like armed people hiding in tall grass, and projects built on that ground tend to collapse. The first line answers from the doorway: keep your shared work in the open. Together they ask you to choose transparency even when others don't. The resulting hexagram is 12 Decline, a time when heaven and earth don't meet and the people around you may not have your interests at heart. This isn't the moment for bold moves or big decisions. Keep your own conduct clean, avoid being drawn into schemes no matter what they promise, and pull back to safe ground. Staying modest and quiet can protect you until conditions change and open cooperation becomes possible again.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- 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 1 of 13 Gathering with Equals
Shared projects should be carried out in the open, with nothing hidden.
Community at the gate. No fault.
- 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.
- The judgment of 12 Decline
You're surrounded by adverse people and situations. Avoid getting involved with those people, no matter what they offer you. Circumstances aren't good for acting or making decisions; it's time to withdraw to a safe place and wait for conditions to change. It's time to keep a low profile.
Stagnation: these are not worthy people. The constancy of the noble person is not favorable. The great goes, the small comes.
The trigrams
The way back
12 Decline → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 1 and 3
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
- 44Lack of Firmnesslines 1 and 2
- 10Treading Carefullylines 2 and 3
- 53Gradual Progresslines 1 and 4
- 9Small Thingslines 2 and 4
- 42Increaselines 3 and 4
- 56The Travelerlines 1 and 5
- 14Wealthlines 2 and 5
- 21Bitinglines 3 and 5
- 22Good Mannerslines 4 and 5
- 31Attractionlines 1 and 6
- 43Overflowinglines 2 and 6
- 17Adaptinglines 3 and 6
- 63After the Endlines 4 and 6
- 55Abundancelines 5 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.