Transformation · lines 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Gathering with Equals becomes Passivity
What this change means
Five lines yield, and all that remains firm is the second line: the bright fellowship becomes open, receptive earth. In 2 Passivity, the one still line is the focus: quietly, without a lot of fuss, you can succeed. That's what this change asks. You don't need to take the lead, gather people, or announce anything. Let others guide where they're better placed to. Keep working patiently at what's in front of you. The community's success right now depends less on initiative than on steady, uncomplaining support. Quiet effort can look like nothing from the outside, yet it's often what holds a group together. Do your part without drawing attention to it, and trust that it counts. Patience with your own projects belongs to the same attitude: keep at them steadily, and let results come in their own time.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 2 of 2 Passivity, which stays still
Quietly, without a lot of fuss, you can succeed.
Straight, square, great. Without learning it, nothing that is not favorable.
- 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 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 4 of 13 Gathering with Equals
Despite the differences, if you reach agreements, trust will come back little by little.
Climbing up on the wall, yet unable to attack. Good fortune.
- Line 5 of 13 Gathering with Equals
The big differences seem impossible to bridge; still, with patience and a willing heart, union returns.
Community: first wailing and cries, then laughter. The great armies manage to meet.
- 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 2 Passivity
This is not the time to take the initiative to achieve things. It's better to let others guide you and to keep at your projects with patience.
Great success. The constancy of a mare is favorable. The noble person has somewhere to go: going ahead, they lose the way; following behind, they find someone to guide them. It is favorable to find friends in the southwest and to lose them in the northeast. Calm constancy brings good fortune.
The trigrams
The way back
2 Passivity → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.