Hexagram:The Well Hexagram:Great Taming

I Ching Transformation

48
The Well
Jing
Water / Wind
26
Great Taming
Da Chu
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Mountainabysmal to stillness
Lower TrigramWind Heavengentle to creative

Yilin Verse

千門萬戶,大福所處。黃屋左纛,龍德獨有。

A thousand gates, ten thousand doors; the dwelling place of great fortune. The yellow roof, the yak-tail standard at its left; the virtue of the dragon belongs to him alone.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 48 (The Well) to hexagram 26 (Great Taming). 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.