Transformation · lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Innocence becomes Well-Being
What this change means
From the second line to the top, five lines move, and Innocence becomes 11 Well-Being: heaven below and earth above, meeting at last. The first line, the only one still, guides the reading: a season of flourishing in which you surround yourself with like-minded people. The resulting hexagram describes harmony and understanding, with people and situations that weren't good for you moving away and supportive ones taking their place. Seen through Innocence, this is what sincerity can open onto. You don't have to force the good season; let it come and enjoy it. Gather with people who share your values and work together. Keep your heart as clear as before, so that the harmony rests on something true. Gifts tend to stay with those who receive them without grabbing.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 1 of 11 Well-Being, which stays still
A season of flourishing: you surround yourself with like-minded people.
The grass is pulled up, and its tangled roots come too, each with its clump. Setting out brings good fortune.
- 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 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 4 of 25 Innocence
No one can take from you what belongs to you, so keep doing the right thing at the right time, and you'll reap the fruits.
Constancy is possible. No fault.
- 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 11 Well-Being
A period of well-being, harmony and understanding is coming, and you can enjoy it. People and situations that weren't good for you are moving away, and in their place come people and situations that bring blessings and support. Heaven grants its gifts.
The small goes, the great comes. Good fortune. Success.
The trigrams
The way back
11 Well-Being → 25 Innocencelines 2, 3, 4, 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.