45. Gathering Together (Ts'ui)

Lake over earth. Suggests unity and coming together for a common purpose.

Line 1: If you are sincere, but not to the end, there will sometimes be confusion, sometimes gathering together. If you call out, then after one grasp of the hand you can laugh again. Regret not. Going is without blame.
Line 2: Letting oneself be drawn brings good fortune and remains blameless. If one is sincere, it furthers one to bring even a small offering.
Line 3: Gathering together amid sighs. Nothing that would further. Going is without blame. Slight humiliation.
Line 4: Great good fortune. No blame.
Line 5: If in gathering together one has position, this brings no blame. If there are some who are not yet sincerely in the work, sublime and enduring perseverance is needed. Then remorse disappears.
Line 6: Lamenting and sighing, floods of tears. No blame.