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45 · waiting and timing

Gathering Together

Hexagram Gathering Together shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

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Zhouyi Core · 周易

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卦辭 · hexagram statement

萃:亨。王假有庙,利见大人,亨。利贞。用大牲吉,利有攸往。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Gathering: free passage. The king comes to the ancestral temple. It is beneficial to see the great person; free passage. Constancy is beneficial. Using a great sacrificial animal is auspicious. It is beneficial to have somewhere to go.

王假有庙 is ritual-political; 大牲 is a large sacrificial victim. The translation keeps the sacrificial setting explicit.

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Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, COMMENTARY_CONTAMINATION_RISK

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Line 1 · 爻辭

初六:有孚不终,乃乱乃萃,若号一握为笑,勿恤,往无咎。

Initial Six: there is trust but it does not last; then disorder, then gathering. If you cry out, after one clasp there is laughter. Do not worry. To go brings no blame.

若号一握为笑 is syntactically difficult; “after one clasp there is laughter” is provisional and high-priority.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

六二:引吉,无咎,孚乃利用禴。

Six in the Second: being drawn is auspicious; no blame. With trust, then it is beneficial to use the yue offering.

禴 is a specific simple seasonal sacrifice; transliteration avoids falsely identifying it with a modern ritual.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三:萃如,嗟如,无攸利,往无咎,小吝。

Six in the Third: gathering, then sighing. Nothing is beneficial. To go brings no blame; a little regret.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

九四:大吉,无咎。

Nine in the Fourth: great auspiciousness. No blame.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

九五:萃有位,无咎。匪孚,元永贞,悔亡。

Nine in the Fifth: gathering around one who has position. No blame. If there is no trust, originating and enduring constancy; regret vanishes.

萃有位 may also parse differently; “around one who has position” is editorial.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六:赍咨涕洟,无咎。

Top Six: sighing and lamenting, tears and running nose. No blame.

赍咨 is archaic lamentation language; bodily detail is preserved.

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Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

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Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of gathering: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • First read Gathering Together as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Gathering Together day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Gathering Together asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • Which small step fits the timing?
  • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • Where does the theme of “Gathering Together” appear in my situation?
  • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.