Hexagram 45 · Line 1
Gathering Together — 初六
Cui · Chu Liu
初六 · Chu Liu
The Line
If you are truthful, but not to the end, there is now confusion, now gathering. If you call, you can after a handclasp laugh again. Do not regret. To go there is without blame.
Interpretation
The situation here is that one wants to gather around a leader to whom one looks up. But one finds oneself in numerous company, by which one is influenced, so that one becomes wavering in one's resolve. Thus one has no firm center for gathering. But if one gives expression to this distress and calls for help, a single grasp of the leader suffices to turn all distress. Therefore one must not let oneself be thrown off. To join that leader is without further ado the right thing.