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◈ Primary hexagram: 45—Out of gestation.

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Name from “Language of the Lines”

Out of gestation.

Lines

6. - -   yin (top)
5. ---   yang 
4. ---   yang 
3. - -   yin 
2. - -   yin 
1. - -   yin (bottom)

Image created from the lines

The two lines which relate to our identity responses, lines 4 and 5, are yang, so we are not involved with either our intuitive feeling (line 2) or our outer world (line 3) both of which are active. Our inner being (line 6) is, however, aware and active with the energy of the emerging life force (line 1). So in this structure our being is involved with the emerging life force and not with our feelings nor our outer activity.

As life energy manifests in time from the inner to the outer the above means that we are involved with inner activity which will present itself in the world later on. The common name of the hexagram is “gathering together”, as clouds will gather before there is rain.

Image created from the trigrams

There is free activity of the life force (K’un) which is stilled in the outer world (Kên) by the structured nature of identity (Sun); however it produces a new activity in our inner being (Tui). This shows a mature identity in preparation for new changes.

The trigram Sun in the place of identity also shows a maturing of our conscious self which is another aspect of gathering together.

The Chinese Oracle

Gathering together.

Success.

The king approaches the temple.

To see the great man is an advantage,

ensuring success.

Continuance in the way is rewarded.

Great sacrifice. Good fortune.

Movement is helpful.

Comments

The success of gathering together is the whole that is made. A temple is for sacrificing the part to whole reality and the king (our identifying mode of being) is approaching this as our differing aspects gather together. To see the great man is to see the whole man, or to see that man is whole if he does not identify himself as separate parts.

The great sacrifice here is separateness, the ownership of a part of reality as “me”, or on a smaller scale the ownership of reality by a facet of me, some desire syndrome in me. Good fortune comes from movement from our present position, which is sacrificing what we are.

Manifestations

The pattern

Gestation.

New life being formed in seclusion.

Gathering together,

preparing for a birth.

For humans

Idea gathers in mind’s womb

impregnated with experience.

Human form in the female

aroused by the male.

In secret its soul enters,

The essence of its total.

In nature

In an egg, when a bird.

In a womb, when a mammal.

In the sky, when a storm gathering.

In forms we make

Forming form is delicate,

taking its own time hidden.

To intrude endangers it.

Moving lines

Line 1 goes yang — life force shows less change

If the life force appears to falter here it is a temporary swing; gathering together is the prevailing movement and it will certainly manifest itself. If we feel insecure due to lack of present support we can gain confidence by looking overall, where gathering together has strength and confidence.

When confidence does not last

there is sometimes gathering and sometimes scattering.

One cry, one clasp of a hand, and he laughs again.

Do not regret, the movement is without blame.

Gathering together has its ups and downs and if we have our being too acutely in the present this appears as gathering and scattering.

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Line 2 goes yang — intuitive feeling less active

The change occurring in us is an inner gathering together and feeling turns inwards and becomes quiet. This moves with the tao, we await the change, we nurture it, but do not try to distinguish it even with feeling—we are allowing it to be itself.

Allowing oneself to be gathered in is an advantage.

No error.

A sacrifice furthers it.

Allowing involves the sacrifice of separate will, without this sacrifice feeling remains a feeling “about” experience and not a feeling from within it.

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Line 3 goes yang — outer world changes less

Although gathering together is internal, identity still needs a flow and action itself is not against the tao; a rhythm of activity, little things, keeps structure in place and feelings secure. Here we need to act but not to focus our being in the act.

Gathering with sad feelings.

Aim is unfortunate yet moving

is no error.

There is some regret.

The regret comes from the focusing, for the activity is a necessary part of our situation but will not carry our life flow.

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Line 4 goes yin — accepting the outer state more

Our outer reality (line 3) is in an active state and by identifying in this while the inner strength is gathering together we interfere less with the process; also we are then in the right place when the new energy is manifest.

Great good fortune.

No error.

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Line 5 goes yin — more awareness of intuition

Here we are identifying with active feeling which centres identity and gathers its elements together.

The position of gathering together is no error.

If there are some not yet in this position they need great continuance in the way, then regret disappears.

The regret we have is that some parts are unworthy, untrustworthy, wrong. Without acceptance of these parts we cannot be gathered together.

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Line 6 goes yang — our inner being accepts less

Our being is now less involved in the process of gathering together. We are not yet ready to accept the consequences of sacrificing our separateness (or what we think are the consequences).

Sighs and tears, but no error.

It is not an error to continue in identity, it only means that we are not experienced enough yet to leave it; despite its problematic nature, its sighs and tears, we choose it.

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