Transformation · lines 3, 5, and 6
Gathering with Equals becomes Shock
What this change means
Thunder on thunder: three lines move and the fellowship is shaken. On one side, 13 Gathering with Equals describes trust among kindred people and the favor of large, original undertakings. On the other, 51 Shock describes sudden, startling events that would frighten others, where staying calm and composed lets you succeed where they fail. In balance, the community will be tested by surprise. When something jolts the group, don't react from fear. Keep your composure and help others find theirs. Look inward, too, at what the shock reveals, since startling moments often show what was weak or untrue. Fellowship that holds steady through a sudden blow tends to come out stronger, and people remember who stayed calm when everyone else was ready to scatter.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- 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 51 Shock
When unexpected situations come along that would frighten others, keep control and act calmly, without losing your composure. This attitude will get you results in what you want and let you succeed where others fail.
Success. Thunder comes, and there is dread; then laughter and easy talk. The thunder alarms a hundred leagues around, yet neither the ladle nor the sacrificial wine is let fall.
- 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 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 trigrams
The way back
51 Shock → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 3, 5, and 6
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
- 6Conflictlines 1, 2, and 3
- 57Gentlenesslines 1, 2, and 4
- 20Observinglines 1, 3, and 4
- 61Inner Integritylines 2, 3, and 4
- 50The Vessel of Nourishmentlines 1, 2, and 5
- 35Advancelines 1, 3, and 5
- 38Oppositeslines 2, 3, and 5
- 52Abidinglines 1, 4, and 5
- 26Great Achievementslines 2, 4, and 5
- 27Nourishmentlines 3, 4, and 5
- 28Excesseslines 1, 2, and 6
- 45Meetinglines 1, 3, and 6
- 58Inner Peacelines 2, 3, and 6
- 39Held Backlines 1, 4, and 6
- 5Inactionlines 2, 4, and 6
- 3Initial Obstacleslines 3, 4, and 6
- 62Success in Small Matterslines 1, 5, and 6
- 34Great Manifestationlines 2, 5, and 6
- 36Darknesslines 4, 5, and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.