Transformation · lines 3, 4, and 6
Innocence becomes After the End
What this change means
Water stands above fire: lines three, four and six move, and Innocence becomes 63 After the End. With three moving lines, the two judgments carry the meaning together. Innocence reminds you that blessings depend on staying true, and that pretense makes affairs hard. The resulting hexagram describes a passing success, everything seeming to go your way, followed by a period of stagnation that you can soften if you prepare ahead of time. Together they ask for honesty about where you stand. Enjoy what's been achieved, but don't fool yourself that it will hold without care. Think about what could go wrong and guard against it now. Keep your conduct clean so that, when things slow, you have nothing to hide and less to repair. Foresight is the form sincerity takes after a success.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- 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.
- The judgment of 63 After the End
You're in a situation where you'll have a passing success: everything seems to be in your favor, and at the end comes a period of stagnation. If you prepare for it ahead of time, you'll be able to soften its effects.
Success in small things. Constancy is favorable. At first, good fortune; in the end, disorder.
- 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 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 trigrams
The way back
63 After the End → 25 Innocencelines 3, 4, and 6
Other transformations of Innocence
- 44Lack of Firmnesslines 1, 2, and 3
- 59Release from Obstacleslines 1, 2, and 4
- 53Gradual Progresslines 1, 3, and 4
- 9Small Thingslines 2, 3, and 4
- 64Transitionlines 1, 2, and 5
- 56The Travelerlines 1, 3, and 5
- 14Wealthlines 2, 3, and 5
- 23The Falllines 1, 4, and 5
- 41Decreaselines 2, 4, and 5
- 22Good Mannerslines 3, 4, and 5
- 47Overwhelmedlines 1, 2, and 6
- 31Attractionlines 1, 3, and 6
- 43Overflowinglines 2, 3, and 6
- 8Unionlines 1, 4, and 6
- 60Thriftlines 2, 4, and 6
- 16Passionlines 1, 5, and 6
- 54A Subordinate Rolelines 2, 5, and 6
- 55Abundancelines 3, 5, and 6
- 24Coming Backlines 4, 5, and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.