Transformation · lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Gathering with Equals becomes Fleeting Success
What this change means
Only the first line holds while the rest move, and the fellowship becomes earth drawing near over the lake. In 19 Fleeting Success, that still line is the focus: allying yourself with the right people now means you'll have backing once the decline arrives. So you're entering a good period, and it won't last forever. Enjoy it, but use it too. This is the time to build relationships with people you can count on, the kind who'll still be there when conditions turn. Choose them for their reliability, not just their pleasant company. Take reasonable precautions while things are going well. You may not escape the downturn, yet good allies can soften it considerably. Pay attention to the signs, and let the people around you know they can rely on you as well; support of this kind runs both ways.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 1 of 19 Fleeting Success, which stays still
If you join with the right people, you'll have support and backing when the decline comes.
Drawing near together. Constancy brings good fortune.
- 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 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 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 19 Fleeting Success
A period of luck, fortune and well-being is coming. Make the most of it, because it will last only eight months; after that, conditions will change. If you can pay attention, read the signs and take care and precautions before the decline arrives, you won't avoid it, but you will lessen its effects while circumstances change.
Great success. Constancy is favorable. When the eighth month comes, misfortune.
The trigrams
The way back
19 Fleeting Success → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
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