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Joining Together
Upper trigram: Water · Lower trigram: Earth
Judgment
Joining requires scrutiny of the bond and the principles it can sustain.
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Water above Earth; from bottom to top: yin, yin, yin, yin, yang, yin.
Find a real center of cooperation rather than join from fear of exclusion.
Six lines and their changes
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Sincerity fills the earthen vessel; let genuine substance precede affiliation.
Move this line → A Difficult Beginning2 / 6
Affiliation grows from an inner position, without surrendering your principles to belong.
Move this line → Through Repeated Danger3 / 6
The wrong companions undermine the bond; examine whom you are joining.
Move this line → A Blocked Passage4 / 6
An outward alliance is workable when its purpose and terms remain upright.
Move this line → Gathering around a Center5 / 6
The hunt leaves one side open; clear leadership allows people room to choose.
Move this line → Earth Receiving6 / 6
A bond without a sound beginning or center has little to hold it together.
Move this line → Attentive Observation
Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.
Joining Together · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?
Water / Earth. Water above Earth; from bottom to top: yin, yin, yin, yin, yang, yin.
Joining Together · Move this line?
Change exactly one line, numbered from the bottom. Each of the six links below leads to the resulting figure.
Classical source · Traditional symbols offer a perspective for reflection, not a prediction of inevitable events.