Hexagram:Return →Hexagram:Small Taming
I-Ching Transformation
24
Return
Fu
Earth / Thunder
→
9
Small Taming
Xiao Chu
Wind / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines: 2, 3, 5, 6).
Line 2: 休復吉
休xiū(be) content
復fùto return
吉jípromising
Line 3: 頻復厲無咎
頻pínrepeated
復fùreturn(s
厲lìdifficult(y)
無wú(but) no
咎jiùblame
Line 5: 敦復無悔
敦dūnhonest
復fùreturn(ing)
無wúno
悔huǐregret(s)
Line 6: 迷復凶有災眚用行師終有大敗以其國君凶至于十年不克征
迷mí(a
復fù(to) return
凶xiōngunfortunate
有yǒuthere is
災zāicalamity
眚shěng(and) injury
用yòng(if
行xíngto move
師shī(a
終zhōng(then) in the end
有yǒuthere will be
大dà(a) great
敗bàidefeat
以yǐfor
其qíone's (own)
國guódomain
君jūn(and) (its) nobility
凶xiōng(with) misfortune
至zhìeven
于yúin
十shíten
年niányears
不bùwithout
克kèability
征zhēng(to
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth →Windreceptive to gentle
Lower TrigramThunder →Heavenarousing to creative
Yilin Verse
戰旗倒插泥，車轍深如溝。殘甲棄道旁，歸鴉啄不休。
Battle flags stuck upside-down in mud; chariot ruts deep as ditches. Broken armor lies abandoned by the road — returning crows peck without cease.
— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE
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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 24 (Return) to hexagram 9 (Small Taming). 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.