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Transformation · lines 2, 3, 4, and 6

Success in Small Matters becomes Immaturity

小過 62 Success in Small Matters 蒙 4 Immaturity
Starting hexagram
Resulting hexagram

What this change means

A spring breaks out beneath the mountain as four lines move, and the picture becomes one of learning. The reading follows the still lines of 4 Immaturity. Its first line says you'll receive help, but you have to apply what you're told, and that you should choose guides who demand a lot without being domineering. Its fifth line adds that recognizing your lack of knowledge in this area, and seeking advice, will bring good results. The hexagram as a whole asks for humility: you don't yet have the maturity to reach what you want, so ask for counsel and put it into practice. This continues the starting situation's sense of limits. Admit what you don't know, find a demanding but fair teacher, and do the work they suggest. Small, well-guided steps now build the maturity bigger aims will need.

What to read, in order

Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.

  1. 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.

  2. Line 5 of 4 Immaturity, which stays still

    If you recognize your lack of knowledge in the area of your question and seek advice, you'll get good results.

    A child's ignorance. Good fortune.

  3. The judgment of 62 Success in Small Matters

    This isn't a time for great things; it's a time for small achievements. Recognizing that will help you live in step with the moment. Trying to go beyond your present means and resources will lead you astray and waste your efforts.

    Success. Constancy is favorable. Small things can be done, not great ones. The flying bird leaves its call behind: it is not fitting to rise, it is fitting to descend. Great good fortune.

  4. Line 2 of 62 Success in Small Matters

    Recognizing your limitations right now and focusing on small achievements will bear fruit.

    Passes the grandfather and meets the grandmother; does not reach the lord and meets the minister. No fault.

  5. Line 3 of 62 Success in Small Matters

    Carelessness and excess bring trouble.

    Unless one goes beyond in guarding oneself, someone following will do harm. Misfortune.

  6. Line 4 of 62 Success in Small Matters

    It's not the time to act, but it is the time to stand firm, without straying from your purposes, until the time to act arrives.

    No fault. Without going beyond, it meets it. Going is dangerous: be on guard. Do not act with lasting constancy.

  7. Line 6 of 62 Success in Small Matters

    If you insist on chasing goals that are out of reach for now, you'll lose whatever you put into them.

    Not meeting it, goes past it. The bird in flight falls into the net. Misfortune. This is called calamity and ruin.

  8. 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

Below Mountain Water
Above Thunder Mountain

The way back

4 Immaturity → 62 Success in Small Matters
lines 2, 3, 4, and 6

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