Transformation · lines 3 and 6
Gathering with Equals becomes Adapting
What this change means
Thunder stirs inside the lake as the third and top lines move. The top line leads: from a place on the outskirts, free of regret, you can find common ground with very different people. The third line names what you need to leave behind: suspicion, hidden motives, the ambush in the tall grass that keeps everything from rising. As the figure becomes 17 Adapting, the question turns to knowing when to lead and when to follow. Read together: drop the defensive stance and look at what role life is actually asking of you right now. Sometimes the person who agrees with everyone is the one who follows best; sometimes that same breadth makes them the natural guide. Act genuinely from wherever you belong, rest when it's time to rest, and support tends to grow around you.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- 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.
- 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 17 Adapting
It's a time both to lead and to follow. If you can see the place life is asking you to take right now, and act genuinely from wherever you belong, you'll gain more leadership and more support for what you do.
Great success. Constancy is favorable. No fault.
The trigrams
The way back
17 Adapting → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 3 and 6
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
- 44Lack of Firmnesslines 1 and 2
- 12Declinelines 1 and 3
- 10Treading Carefullylines 2 and 3
- 53Gradual Progresslines 1 and 4
- 9Small Thingslines 2 and 4
- 42Increaselines 3 and 4
- 56The Travelerlines 1 and 5
- 14Wealthlines 2 and 5
- 21Bitinglines 3 and 5
- 22Good Mannerslines 4 and 5
- 31Attractionlines 1 and 6
- 43Overflowinglines 2 and 6
- 63After the Endlines 4 and 6
- 55Abundancelines 5 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.