I Ching hexagram 45

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I Ching hexagram 45, depicted :::||: is named 萃 (cui4), Clustering. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Gathering Together (Massing); E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Finished.

• Inner (lower) trigram is ☷ (::: 坤 kun1) Field = (地) earth
• Outer (upper) trigram is ☱ (||: 兌 dui4) Open = (澤) swamp
• The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With devotion to another/others (earth in lower) comes intensity in expression (lake in upper)"

I Ching hexagrams
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself

The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.

• The skeletal form of hexagram 45 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 25 where we have a generic focus on standing up in a congregation to express oneself. In 45 we form a congregation to celebrate 'faith', be it secular or religious.