Hexagram:Youthful Folly →Hexagram:Breakthrough
I Ching Transformation
4
Youthful Folly
Meng
Mountain / Water
→
43
Breakthrough
Guai
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain →Lakestillness to joyous
Lower TrigramWater →Heavenabysmal to creative
Yilin Verse
天之所壞，不可強支。眾口指笑，雖貴必危。
What heaven itself would destroy cannot be propped up by force. The crowd points and laughs; though noble, one must come to peril.
— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE
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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 4 (Youthful Folly) to hexagram 43 (Breakthrough). 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.