Hexagram:The Marrying Maiden Hexagram:Innocence

I Ching Transformation

54
The Marrying Maiden
Gui Mei
Thunder / Lake
25
Innocence
Wu Wang
Heaven / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder Heavenarousing to creative
Lower TrigramLake Thunderinversion

Yilin Verse

雞方啄粟,為狐所逐。走不得食,惶懼喘息。

The chicken pecks at grain; the fox gives chase. It flees without eating, panting and gasping in terror.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 54 (The Marrying Maiden) to hexagram 25 (Innocence). 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.