Transformation · lines 2, 5, and 6

Great Manifestation becomes Gathering with Equals

Starting hexagram
Resulting hexagram

What this change means

Heaven together with Fire: the second, fifth and top lines move, and solitary strength turns toward companionship. Both judgments carry the reading equally. The starting one says your capacity is real, and that it lasts when you stay active, persevere, and let thought and action go together. The resulting hexagram, 13 Gathering with Equals, adds the people. You're likely to meet people of a nature as high as yours, and together you can take on important work. Relationships built on trust and mutual support take shape, and large, innovative projects are favored. Strength shared with equals goes further than strength alone. Look for people who match your commitment, build trust with them, and take on something bigger together than any of you could alone.

What to read, in order

Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.

  1. The judgment of 34 Great Manifestation

    You have what it takes to carry out big projects and achieve extraordinary things. Still, you need to stay active and keep persevering. Thinking and acting in harmony will keep you holding to what is right and will make your achievements last.

    Constancy is favorable.

  2. 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.

  3. Line 2 of 34 Great Manifestation

    Circumstances are starting to open up and conditions keep getting better. Still, stay centered and keep persevering to get the results you want.

    Constancy brings good fortune.

  4. Line 5 of 34 Great Manifestation

    This is a favorable moment when you can do without force and head toward your goals without haste or strain: the good wave will carry you to success.

    Loses the ram at Yi. No regret.

  5. Line 6 of 34 Great Manifestation

    If you push ahead without thinking and without taking in feedback, you reach a point that becomes a wall and blocks your way. Being aware of this before you go too far will let you change course.

    A ram butts the fence: it can't go back, it can't go on. Nothing is favorable. Taking on the hardship: good fortune.

The trigrams

Below Heaven Fire
Above Thunder Heaven

The way back

13 Gathering with Equals → 34 Great Manifestation
lines 2, 5, and 6

Other transformations of Great Manifestation

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