Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

萃 (Cuì)

Assembly and the power of collective effort.

Overview

In the past you built up conflicts inside your life, and they became a serious obstacle to your growth. Fate has already brought you out of that long run of failure. You have felt it yourself. You are on your way to success now. A large change has taken place, and the obstacles have given way to good surprises.

Your past failures were the dividing line between the successes you had before and the plans you have for the future. The long standstill kept many of your intentions from coming true. Now you can go back to those plans and really carry them out. Leave the trouble behind, because a new time with new chances has arrived.

People around you

The change for the better should show first in your relationships with the people around you. Be careful about the new people you let into your life. Try to renew connections that broke off earlier, since people often stop talking simply because they have no time. Look inside yourself and listen: whom do you want to talk to again? Old friends may be truly glad to meet you.

Work and rest

Rebuild the way you divide work and rest. The old pattern will not do at all. Learn to balance hard work with real rest. Your body is weaker now and you can fall ill easily, so take proper care of your daily routine.

Your wish

Your wish looks to be on its way, improbable as that seems after such a long stretch of failure. You simply do not yet see the hidden side of what is coming. Be patient a little longer, and fate might well have a good surprise waiting.

This Overview is one traditional reading of the figure, offered as a prompt for reflection and perspective rather than a prediction of a fixed future. Where this material comes from.

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Structure

Read from the bottom upward, hexagram 45 is Lake over Earth. Its two inner, or nuclear, trigrams are Wind/Wood over Mountain. What the eight trigrams mean.

Upper trigram (lines 4–6): Duì · Lake Joyous and open
Lower trigram (lines 1–3): Kūn · Earth Receptive and devoted
Upper nuclear (lines 3–5): Xùn · Wind/Wood Gentle and penetrating
Lower nuclear (lines 2–4): Gèn · Mountain Still and stopping