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Transformation · lines 2 and 3

Gathering with Equals becomes Treading Carefully

同人 13 Gathering with Equals 履 10 Treading Carefully
Starting hexagram
Resulting hexagram

What this change means

Here the community splits along two fault lines. The third line, which leads, shows mistrust growing until people hide things from each other and the work stops rising. The second line adds the closed clan, a group that keeps others out and so goes nowhere. As the lower Fire turns into Lake, the situation becomes 10 Treading Carefully: you're walking near people who could block you or turn against you. That's not a reason for alarm, but it is a reason for care. How you carry yourself now matters more than how strong you are. Move with awareness and a light step, treat potential rivals with courtesy, and avoid taking sides in any faction. Lay down suspicion where you can. Conduct like this can soften opposition and may even turn wary people into allies, which suspicion and exclusion never manage to do.

What to read, in order

Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. The judgment of 10 Treading Carefully

    You're facing a difficult situation. If you know how to conduct yourself properly, moving with awareness and gentleness, even people who could be rivals and stand in your way will give ground, and may even become your allies.

    Stepping on the tiger's tail; it does not bite. Success.

The trigrams

Below Fire Lake
Above Heaven stays

The way back

10 Treading Carefully → 13 Gathering with Equals
lines 2 and 3

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