Hexagram:The Creative Hexagram:Contemplation

I Ching Transformation

1
The Creative
Qian
Heaven / Heaven
20
Contemplation
Guan
Wind / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven Windcreative to gentle
Lower TrigramHeaven Earthyin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

江河淮海,天之奧府。眾利所聚,可以饒有。樂我君子,百福是受。

The Yangtze, the Yellow River, the Huai, the sea: heaven’s hidden treasury. Where all profits gather, one may have abundance. Rejoice, O noble man; receive a hundred blessings.

— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 1 (The Creative) to hexagram 20 (Contemplation). In the I Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.