Hexagram:Grace Hexagram:The Army

I Ching Transformation

22
Grace
Bi
Mountain / Fire
7
The Army
Shi
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Earthstillness to receptive
Lower TrigramFire Wateryin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

楩生荊山,命制輸班。袍衣剝脫,夏熱冬寒。立餓枯槁,眾人莫怜。

Fine timber grows on Jing Mountain, its fate entrusted to master builders. Robes stripped away, bare to summer heat and winter cold. Standing starved and withered; no one shows pity.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 22 (Grace) to hexagram 7 (The Army). 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.