Hexagram:The Abysmal Hexagram:Coming to Meet

I Ching Transformation

29
The Abysmal
Kan
Water / Water
44
Coming to Meet
Gou
Heaven / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Heavenabysmal to creative
Lower TrigramWater Windabysmal to gentle

Yilin Verse

逐走追亡,相及扶桑,復見其鄉,使我悔喪。

Chasing the fled, pursuing the lost; catching up at Fusang. Seeing one's homeland again -- it fills me with remorse and grief.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 29 (The Abysmal) to hexagram 44 (Coming to Meet). 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.