Hexagram:Youthful Folly Hexagram:Revolution

I Ching Transformation

4
Youthful Folly
Meng
Mountain / Water
49
Revolution
Ge
Lake / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Lakestillness to joyous
Lower TrigramWater Fireyin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

愆淫旱疾,傷害稼穡。喪制病來,農人無食。

Excessive rain and drought and disease; they harm the planting and harvesting. Mourning rites, illness arrives; the farmer has nothing to eat.

— 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 49 (Revolution). 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.