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Open Allegiance and the Assembly It Makes Possible

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Open Allegiance and the Assembly It Makes Possible

Six in the fourth place advises a querent to declare an allegiance rather than to keep it quiet. As a changing line it concerns support given to a leader, an institution or a shared undertaking that stands above the querent's own position, and its commentary is specific: the good fortune comes from following what is above, openly, with firm correctness. Discretion is not the virtue here. A commitment made in the open is what this line rewards.

Flipping the yielding stroke to firm changes the upper trigram Kan into Dui, lake, and lake over earth gives Gathering Together, King Wen 45, a hexagram whose whole subject is people assembling around a center. The transformation is unusually harmonious with its source. Where Holding Together describes attachment one line at a time, Gathering Together describes the assembly that results, and open allegiance at this height is precisely the act that turns scattered attachment into a gathering.

A reading landing here is favorable and asks for visibility. The querent is counseled to align with the legitimate center of the situation rather than with peers or rivals at their own level, and to let that alignment be known. What follows from it, in the figure this line produces, is not isolation but company: others assemble where a clear center has been publicly acknowledged.

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