Hexagram:Breakthrough Hexagram:Youthful Folly

I Ching Transformation

43
Breakthrough
Guai
Lake / Heaven
4
Youthful Folly
Meng
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Mountainjoyous to stillness
Lower TrigramHeaven Watercreative to abysmal

Yilin Verse

碧湖無風鏡面平,白鷺立石不驚鳴。垂柳半掩茅亭靜,一壺清酒伴月明。

A jade-green lake, windless, flat as a mirror. A white egret stands on a rock, calling without alarm. Weeping willows half-conceal a thatched pavilion — one pot of clear wine, accompanied by the bright moon.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 43 (Breakthrough) to hexagram 4 (Youthful Folly). 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.