Ts'ui / Gathering Together [Massing]
above: Tui The Joyous, Lake
below:K'un The Receptive, Earth
The third [six], divided, shows its subject striving after union and seeming to sigh, yet nowhere finding any advantage. If he go forward, he will not err, though there may be some small cause for regret.
Line 3 is weak, in the place of a strong line, and advanced from the central place. The topmost line, moreover, is no proper correlate. But its subject is possessed by the desire for union; and though 2 and 4 decline to associate with him, he presses on to 6, which is also desirous of union. That common desire brings them together; notwithstanding 3 and 6 are both divided lines; and with difficulty the subject of 3 accomplishes his object. (But that an ordinary rule for interpreting the lineal indications may be thus overruled by extraordinary considerations shows how much of fancy there is in the symbolism or in the commentaries on it.)