Transformation · lines 3, 4, 5, and 6
Gathering with Equals becomes Coming Back
What this change means
Something that had gone quiet starts to return: four lines move, and thunder stirs deep within the earth. In 24 Coming Back, read the two still lines. The first says success lies in doing things at exactly the right time, by watching the signs and acting on them. The second says surrounding yourself with the right people now will bring success. So after a difficult or dim period in your relationships, the return is beginning. Choose your companions carefully as things revive; this time, gather people who support the direction you're taking. Watch the timing, too, and move when the signs say so, not before. Remember what led you astray before, so you don't repeat it. People may come forward to help you now, and the projects you share with them can find favor again.
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 24 Coming Back, which stays still
Success lies in doing things at the perfect time: watch the signs and act on them.
Returning from not far, without coming to regret. Great good fortune.
- Line 2 of 24 Coming Back, which stays still
Surrounding yourself with the right people right now will bring success.
A restful return. 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 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 24 Coming Back
After a period of adversity and darkness, the return comes. Still, be aware of the mistakes that led you into the dark, because if you repeat them you could fall again. People will come to help you, and your undertakings and projects will be favored.
Success. Going out and coming in without harm; friends arrive, no fault. Back and forth along its way: in seven days comes the return. It is favorable to have somewhere to go.
The trigrams
The way back
24 Coming Back → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 3, 4, 5, and 6
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
- 59Release from Obstacleslines 1, 2, 3, and 4
- 64Transitionlines 1, 2, 3, and 5
- 18Loss, Then Gainlines 1, 2, 4, and 5
- 23The Falllines 1, 3, 4, and 5
- 41Decreaselines 2, 3, 4, and 5
- 47Overwhelmedlines 1, 2, 3, and 6
- 48Right Actionlines 1, 2, 4, and 6
- 8Unionlines 1, 3, 4, and 6
- 60Thriftlines 2, 3, 4, and 6
- 32What Lastslines 1, 2, 5, and 6
- 16Passionlines 1, 3, 5, and 6
- 54A Subordinate Rolelines 2, 3, 5, and 6
- 15Simplicitylines 1, 4, 5, and 6
- 11Well-Beinglines 2, 4, 5, and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.