Hexagram:Peace Hexagram:Progress

I-Ching Transformation

11
Peace
Tai
Earth / Heaven
35
Progress
Jin
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

Line 1: 拔茅茹以其彙征吉

pulling
máothatch
by the roots
thereby
uprooting its
huìwhole cluster
zhēngto expedite
promising

Line 2: 包荒用馮河不遐遺朋亡得尚于中行

bāoembrace
huāngthe wilderness
yòngpractical
píngto cross
river
avoid
xiáaloofness
neglect
péngcompanions
wángimpermanent
learn
shàngthe value
in
zhōngbalanced
xíngaction

Line 3: 無平不陂無往不復艱貞無咎勿恤其孚于食有福

there is not
pínglevel
without
slope
there is no
wǎnggoing
without
return
jiāndifficult
zhēnto persist
without
jiùmistake
do not
worry
these
certainties
in
shínourishment
yǒufind
happiness

Line 4: 翩翩不富以其鄰不戒以孚

piānfluttering
piānfluttering
no
enrichment
making use of
one's
línneighbors
avoid
jièlimit
the ways
trust

Line 6: 城復于隍勿用師自邑告命貞吝

chéngthe city walls
falls back
into
huángthe moat (a dry ditch at the base of a wall)
do not
yòngengage
shīthe military
in
home town
gàoannounce
mìngthe decree
zhēnto persist
lìnembarrassing

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth Firereceptive to clinging
Lower TrigramHeaven Earthyin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

登几上輿,駕駟南遊;合縱散衡,燕秦以強。

Ascending the carriage platform, mounting the four-horse chariot, traveling south. Uniting the vertical alliance, dissolving the horizontal; Yan and Qin thereby grow strong.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 11 (Peace) to hexagram 35 (Progress). 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.