Hexagram 45 of 64
萃 cuì
Gathering
兑 (duì, Lake) above · 坤 (kūn, Earth) below
The Judgment 卦辞
People and resources gather around a center — make yours worthy. Prepare the temple, not just the crowd: devotion turns a mass into a movement.
The Image 大象
The lake rises over the earth: gathering. Kings of old maintained temples and weapons — ready for the unexpected.
The six lines 爻辞
Each line of 萃 has its own classical text. If a line in your cast is changing, its text is the heart of your reading.
Line 1 · 初六
Trust that falters, order dissolving into gathering — then a cry, a handshake, laughter. Do not worry; go — no blame.
「有孚不终，乃乱乃萃，若号一握为笑，勿恤，往无咎」
Line 2 · 六二
Drawn forward into the gathering: good fortune, no blame. Simple sincerity is the real offering.
「引吉，无咎，孚乃利用禴」
Line 3 · 六三
Gathering with sighing gets you nothing. Go anyway — no blame, small awkwardness.
「萃如嗟如，无攸利，往无咎，小吝」
Line 4 · 九四
Great good fortune — and only then, no blame. In big gatherings, position is everything.
「大吉，无咎」
Line 5 · 九五
Your place in the gathering is held — no blame. Trust incomplete: long steadiness dissolves regret.
「萃有位，无咎。匪孚，元永贞，悔亡」
Line 6 · 上六
Sighing, tears and sniffles — the one left outside looking in. Grieve it, and no blame remains.
「赍咨涕洟，无咎」
If you drew this in a reading
A favorable pattern. Among the sixty-four patterns, this one belongs to the favorable family: its core movement supports what you would do with it. Favorable does not mean automatic — the hexagram still asks you to hold up your end with steadiness and good faith.
In yes/no questions this hexagram leans yes — the pattern supports proceeding.
The trigrams give the flavor: 兑 (Lake) above — joyous openness — exchange, persuasion, pleasure shared — over 坤 (Earth) below — receptive devotion — nourishment, patience, carrying others. Where those two energies meet, 萃 is born.
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