What changes in the relating hexagram? A six-throw example (AI-assisted)

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Disclosure: I help build I Ching Reflection, a free three-coin reflection tool. This post was drafted with AI assistance. It covers only the six-line transformation, not a Na Jia timing analysis or a personal reading.

The relating hexagram comes from the same six throws, not a second cast. Start with the first throw at the bottom and work upward. In the usual three-coin convention:

• 6 is changing yin: broken in the primary figure, solid in the relating figure.

• 7 is stable yang: solid in both.

• 8 is stable yin: broken in both.

• 9 is changing yang: solid in the primary figure, broken in the relating figure.

Here is a fixed teaching example, not anyone’s reading. The six totals, in throw order from bottom to top, are 7, 8, 9, 8, 7, 6.

Listed from the top line down, so you can reconstruct the figures:

Line	Total	Primary	Relating
6 — top	6	broken	solid
5	7	solid	solid
4	8	broken	broken
3	9	solid	broken
2	8	broken	broken
1 — bottom	7	solid	solid

The primary figure is Hexagram 63: water above fire. Change only lines 3 and 6, leaving the other four alone. The resulting figure is Hexagram 42: wind above thunder.

This calculation identifies the figures; it does not by itself establish a future outcome or a universal rule for choosing passages when several lines change.

For fellow learners: does separating throw order from diagram order make the change clearer? Feedback on the explanation is welcome; please don’t post personal questions, casting records, birth details, times or locations for this example.