Transformation · line 3
Gathering with Equals becomes Innocence
What this change means
Soldiers crouched in the brush, someone watching from a high hill, and for years nothing rises: the third line pictures community poisoned by suspicion. When distrust grows and people start hiding things from one another, whatever you attempt together tends to fail. This line is the center of the reading, and it asks for an honest look at where wariness has replaced trust. The lower Fire becomes Thunder, and the figure turns into 25 Innocence. The remedy it points to is a pure heart: acting without hidden motives, staying with what is right. Hidden agendas, yours or anyone's, are exactly what blocks the way here, while plain intentions can let good things in. So drop the ambush posture. Say what you actually want, stop guarding against attacks that may never come, and give people a chance to show their real intentions. Without that, the waiting can stretch on.
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.
- 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 25 Innocence
If you act with a pure heart, free of hidden motives and without straying from what is right, true to original human nature, you'll let the blessings of heaven reach you. Otherwise you'll meet obstacles and your affairs will become difficult.
Great success. Constancy is favorable. If it is not upright, there is calamity. It is not favorable to have somewhere to go.
The trigrams
The way back
25 Innocence → 13 Gathering with Equalsline 3
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.