Transformation · lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Attraction becomes Immaturity
What this change means
A spring breaks out beneath the mountain: five lines move, only the first stays, and Attraction becomes 4 Immaturity. You don't yet have the maturity you need for what you're after here. Act with humility, ask for guidance, and put what you're told into practice. With five lines changing, the guidance comes from the resulting hexagram's one still line, the first. It says you'll receive help, but you have to apply it, and asks you to choose guides who demand a lot of you without being domineering. That gives the openness of Attraction a clear purpose: be receptive to teaching. Let the right mentors come close, listen without defensiveness, and then do the work. Choose people who challenge you rather than flatter you. Learning, not winning people over, is the task in front of you right now.
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 4 Immaturity, which stays still
You'll receive help, but you have to apply what you're told. Choose guides who demand a lot of you without being domineering.
To wake the ignorant, it is favorable to use punishment and to take off the shackles. Going on this way: distress.
- The judgment of 31 Attraction
You'll get good results to the extent that you stay open and receptive, which lets people come close who will support you and help you get there, generously and without self-interest.
Success. Constancy is favorable. Taking a wife brings good fortune.
- Line 2 of 31 Attraction
Wait, without rushing or taking the initiative, until the right people and situations show up on their own.
Contact at the calves. Misfortune. Staying put brings good fortune.
- Line 3 of 31 Attraction
Don't act hastily, attaching yourself to the wrong people or chasing your dreams without thinking: this will take you off the path.
Contact at the thighs. Holding on to what follows. Going on: distress.
- Line 4 of 31 Attraction
Centering yourself in your heart and your inner resources will let what is right for you find you naturally.
Constancy brings good fortune. Regret vanishes. Restless, coming and going; friends follow your thoughts.
- Line 5 of 31 Attraction
An attitude of stillness, without trying to influence people or events, will bring you achievement.
Contact at the back. No regret.
- Line 6 of 31 Attraction
If you try to influence others or win their support with words alone and not with matching actions, your achievements will be modest.
Contact at the jaws, the cheeks, the tongue.
- The judgment of 4 Immaturity
Be aware that you don't yet have the maturity you need to reach what you're after in the area of your question. Act with humility: ask for guidance, seek advice and counsel, and put what you're told into practice.
Success. I do not go looking for the ignorant youth; the ignorant youth comes looking for me. The first time the oracle is asked, I answer. A second and a third asking is an offense, and an offense gets no answer. Constancy is favorable.
The trigrams
The way back
4 Immaturity → 31 Attractionlines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Other transformations of Attraction
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.