Hexagram:The Creative Hexagram:Splitting Apart

I Ching Transformation

1
The Creative
Qian
Heaven / Heaven
23
Splitting Apart
Bo
Mountain / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven Mountaincreative to stillness
Lower TrigramHeaven Earthyin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

大禹式路,蚩尤除道。周匝萬里,不危不殆,見其所使,無所不在。

Great Yu inspected the roads; Chiyou cleared the way. Circling ten thousand li, neither perilous nor imperiled. Seeing those he commanded, he was present everywhere.

— 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 23 (Splitting Apart). 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.