I Ching Oracle Lookup - Hexagram 4: Immaturity

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Welcome to Hexagram 4, Immaturity. The table below maps every combination of changing lines to its resulting hexagram — 63 transformations plus the unchanging reading. The notation reads from the bottom line upward: 4.1.5 means Hexagram 4 with lines 1 and 5 changing.

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4
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4.1
41		 ䷃
4.2
23		 ䷃
4.3
18		 ䷃
4.4
64		 ䷃
4.5
59		 ䷃
4.6
7		 ䷃
4.1.2
27
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4.1.3
26		 ䷃
4.1.4
38		 ䷃
4.1.5
61		 ䷃
4.1.6
19		 ䷃
4.2.3
52		 ䷃
4.2.4
35		 ䷃
4.2.5
20		 ䷃
4.2.6
2
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4.3.4
50		 ䷃
4.3.5
57		 ䷃
4.3.6
46		 ䷃
4.4.5
6		 ䷃
4.4.6
40		 ䷃
4.5.6
29		 ䷃
4.1.2.3
22		 ䷃
4.1.2.4
21
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4.1.2.5
42		 ䷃
4.1.2.6
24		 ䷃
4.1.3.4
14		 ䷃
4.1.3.5
9		 ䷃
4.1.3.6
11		 ䷃
4.1.4.5
10		 ䷃
4.1.4.6
54		 ䷃
4.1.5.6
60
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4.2.3.4
56		 ䷃
4.2.3.5
53		 ䷃
4.2.3.6
15		 ䷃
4.2.4.5
12		 ䷃
4.2.4.6
16		 ䷃
4.2.5.6
8		 ䷃
4.3.4.5
44		 ䷃
4.3.4.6
32
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4.3.5.6
48		 ䷃
4.4.5.6
47		 ䷃
4.1.2.3.4
30		 ䷃
4.1.2.3.5
37		 ䷃
4.1.2.3.6
36		 ䷃
4.1.2.4.5
25		 ䷃
4.1.2.4.6
51		 ䷃
4.1.2.5.6
3
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4.1.3.4.5
1		 ䷃
4.1.3.4.6
34		 ䷃
4.1.3.5.6
5		 ䷃
4.1.4.5.6
58		 ䷃
4.2.3.4.5
33		 ䷃
4.2.3.4.6
62		 ䷃
4.2.3.5.6
39		 ䷃
4.2.4.5.6
45
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4.3.4.5.6
28		 ䷃
4.1.2.3.4.5
13		 ䷃
4.1.2.3.4.6
55		 ䷃
4.1.2.3.5.6
63		 ䷃
4.1.2.4.5.6
17		 ䷃
4.1.3.4.5.6
43		 ䷃
4.2.3.4.5.6
31		 ䷃
4.1.2.3.4.5.6
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About the Transformations of Hexagram 4

Hexagram 4, Immaturity (蒙 Méng), combines Water below with Mountain above. Depth occupies the lower three positions, and Stillness forms the upper boundary, giving the figure a structure in which an unsettled base meets containment. A low-line change modifies the Water trigram and its internal pattern; a high-line change modifies Mountain. When lines move across both trigrams, the relation between underlying depth and upper restraint is transformed together.

The table treats movement as a precise binary operation: every changing line inverts, and the completed six-line configuration resolves into a second hexagram. It enumerates six single-line changes, then fifty-seven multi-line combinations of the six positions. Alongside these transformations stands the unchanging reading, for which the figure has no moving line and the Judgment of Hexagram 4 alone governs.

If every position changes polarity, Immaturity becomes Hexagram 49, Recasting, the exact complement obtained by reversing all six line values. The King Wen pair follows a different operation. Hexagram 4 is paired with Hexagram 3, Difficulty at the Beginning, by inversion: the figure of Immaturity, turned upside down, yields its sequence partner. Complement and pair therefore identify two distinct structural relations in this case, one polar and one rotational.

For the full Judgment, Image, and line texts, see Hexagram 4: Immaturity →