The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 45
What does I Ching hexagram 45, Gathering, mean?
萃Lake 兌 above
Earth 坤 below
Hexagram 45 of the I Ching is Gathering (萃), Lake over Earth. Its judgment opens “Gathering: the king comes to his temple.”
The judgment
萃：王假有廟，利見大人，亨。利貞。用大牲吉，利有攸往。Gathering: the king comes to his temple. It pays to see a great person. Success, and it pays to hold firm. A large offering brings good fortune, and it pays to set out.Zhou Yi 周易, 萃, judgment. Source
The image
澤上于地，萃；君子以除戎器，戒不虞。The lake over the earth. The noble person readies arms against the unexpected.Zhou Yi 周易, 萃, image. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初六：有孚不終，乃亂乃萃，若號一握為笑，勿恤，往无咎。
- Second line六二：引吉，无咎，孚乃利用禴。
- Third line六三：萃如，嗟如，无攸利，往无咎，小吝。
- Fourth line九四：大吉，无咎。
- Fifth line九五：萃有位，无咎。匪孚，元永貞，悔亡。
- Top line上六：齎資涕洟，无咎。
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