Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6
Innocence becomes What Lasts
What this change means
Of the six lines, only the fourth holds firm as Innocence becomes 32 What Lasts, thunder and wind together. That still line gives the guidance: motivation and enthusiasm aren't enough on their own; you also need to find the places where your dreams can flourish. The resulting hexagram asks for action rather than stillness, for clear goals and conduct in line with them, so that achievements grow and endure. Seen through Innocence, endurance comes from sincerity applied in the right place. Look honestly at where your efforts can take root and where they're spent on ground that won't hold. Choose that soil carefully, then commit. Stand firm without changing direction every time something new appears. Steady, honest work in a fitting setting is what makes results last.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 4 of 32 What Lasts, which stays still
Motivation and enthusiasm aren't all you need to achieve something; you also need to find the places where those dreams can flourish.
No game in the field.
- The judgment of 25 Innocence
If you act with a pure heart, free of hidden motives and without straying from what is right, true to original human nature, you'll let the blessings of heaven reach you. Otherwise you'll meet obstacles and your affairs will become difficult.
Great success. Constancy is favorable. If it is not upright, there is calamity. It is not favorable to have somewhere to go.
- Line 1 of 25 Innocence
Follow the way of the heart: it will always know what is right at each moment. This will lead you to success.
Without falseness. Going brings good fortune.
- Line 2 of 25 Innocence
Doing your work without thinking about what you'll get from it is the way to succeed.
Not plowing with the harvest in mind, not clearing land with the ripe field in mind: then it is favorable to have somewhere to go.
- Line 3 of 25 Innocence
Watch and act at the right time, because a good deed done at the wrong moment turns out badly.
An undeserved calamity: someone tied up an ox; the traveler takes it, and the calamity falls on the villagers.
- Line 5 of 25 Innocence
If adverse things happen to you that aren't caused by your own negligence, don't worry: little by little things will straighten out until they're back on course.
An undeserved illness. Take no medicine: there will be joy.
- Line 6 of 25 Innocence
If you try to force things without waiting for the right conditions, you'll go astray and delay getting what you want.
Without falseness. Moving on brings calamity. Nothing is favorable.
- The judgment of 32 What Lasts
This moment asks you for action, not stillness. It asks you to have clear goals to head toward and to act in line with them. That way you'll achieve things, and your achievements will keep growing and will last.
Success. No fault. Constancy is favorable. It is favorable to have somewhere to go.
The trigrams
The way back
32 What Lasts → 25 Innocencelines 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6
Other transformations of Innocence
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.