Hexagram:Increase →Hexagram:Great Preponderance
I Ching Transformation
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
堅冰黃鳥，常哀悲愁。不見白粒，但覩藜蒿。數驚鷙鳥，飄為我憂。
Hard ice and a yellow bird, forever wailing in sorrow. No white grain to be seen, only goosefoot and wormwood. Startled again and again by hunting hawks, drifting, a source of endless worry.
— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE
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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 42 (Increase) to hexagram 28 (Great Preponderance). 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.