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Hexagram 45
萃Cuì
People and resources converging around a visible center.
Success. The king approaches the ancestral temple. Meeting a great person is beneficial. Success; constancy is beneficial. Offering a large sacrificial animal is favorable. Proceeding is beneficial.
亨。王假有廟，利見大人，亨，利貞。用大牲吉，利有攸往。
A lake rises above the earth: Gathering Together. The exemplary person sets weapons in order and keeps watch for the unforeseen.
澤上于地，萃。君子以除戎器，戒不虞。
Bottom to top
Line 1
有孚不終，乃亂乃萃。若號，一握為笑，勿恤，往无咎。
Trust does not last to the end; there is disorder and gathering. If one calls out, a clasp of hands turns to laughter. Do not worry. Going brings no fault.
Line 1 moves between an unfinished bond, disorder, and a call for contact. Changing this yielding line makes Thunder below Lake, Hexagram 17. Following offers a comparison with the unfinished gathering and its call for contact.
Read Line 1 in contextLine 2
引吉无咎，孚乃利用禴。
Being drawn forward is favorable and without fault. With trust, even a simple seasonal offering is fitting.
Line 2 pairs being drawn into the gathering with trust and a modest offering. Its change replaces lower Earth with Water, forming Hexagram 47. Both figures’ second lines mention a sacrificial offering, setting the ritual within gathering and within constraint.
Read Line 2 in contextLine 3
萃如，嗟如，无攸利。往无咎，小吝。
Gathering with sighs. Nothing is beneficial. Going brings no fault, though there is a little cause for regret.
Sighing accompanies the wish to gather at Line 3; going is without fault, though not free of difficulty. Its change makes Mountain below Lake, Hexagram 31. The contrast is between the present difficulty of joining and a figure concerned with influence and response.
Read Line 3 in contextLine 4
大吉，无咎。
Greatly favorable. No fault.
Line 4 says greatly favorable and no fault; it supplies no additional scene. Changing this firm line makes Water above Earth, Hexagram 8, leaving Line 5 as the only firm line. The comparison concerns gathering around a single center.
Read Line 4 in contextLine 5
萃有位，无咎。匪孚。元永貞，悔亡。
Gathering around a recognized place brings no fault. Where trust is absent, great and lasting constancy lets regret disappear.
Line 5 holds a position around which people gather, yet trust is not assured. Its change turns upper Lake into Thunder, Hexagram 16; Line 4 is then the sole firm line. The comparison concerns where a gathering centers.
Read Line 5 in contextLine 6
齎咨涕洟，无咎。
Sighs, tears, and a running nose. No fault.
Tears close the sequence at Line 6, the gathering's far edge. Changing the line gives Hexagram 12, with earth below and heaven above no longer meeting.
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