Hexagram:The Creative →Hexagram:Youthful Folly
I Ching Transformation
1
The Creative
Qian
Heaven / Heaven
→
4
Youthful Folly
Meng
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines: 1, 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramHeaven →Mountaincreative to stillness
Lower TrigramHeaven →Watercreative to abysmal
Yilin Verse
鴶鵴鳲鳩，專一無尤。君子是則，長受嘉福。
The cuckoo and the turtledove, devoted and without fault. The noble man takes this as his model and long receives fine 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 4 (Youthful Folly). 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.