Hexagram:The Marrying Maiden Hexagram:Keeping Still

I Ching Transformation

54
The Marrying Maiden
Gui Mei
Thunder / Lake
52
Keeping Still
Gen
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder Mountainarousing to stillness
Lower TrigramLake Mountainjoyous to stillness

Yilin Verse

遼遠絕路,客宿多悔。頑囂相聚,生我畏惡。

Distant and far, the road cut off; the traveler lodges in regret. The brash and the loud gather together, breeding in me fear and loathing.

— 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 52 (Keeping Still). 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.