泰 → 无妄
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 包荒。用馮河。不遐遺。朋亡。得尚于中行。
Nine in the second place means: Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness, Fording the river with resolution, Not neglecting what is distant, Not regarding one's companions: Thus one may manage to walk in the middle.
Line 3
九三 无平不陂。无往不復。艱貞无咎。勿恤其孚。于食有福。
Nine in the third place means: No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger Is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
Line 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Line 5
六五 帝乙歸妹。以祉元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The sovereign I Gives his daughter in marriage. This brings blessing And supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上六 城復于隍。勿用師。自邑告命。貞吝。
Six at the top means: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
桑之將落，隕其黃葉；失勢傾側，如無所立。
The mulberry is about to fall; its yellow leaves cascade. Losing one's footing, toppling sideways, as if there were nowhere to stand.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's green canopy withers. The mulberry tree is about to shed its leaves, yellow foliage falling in cascades. Power is lost, one tilts and staggers as though there is nothing left to stand upon. The mulberry imagery echoes the Shijing's 'Sang Luo' odes, where the mulberry's decline signals the end of a relationship or an era. The yellow leaves are autumn's signature — what was lush becomes brittle. From Peace to Innocence, heaven below thunders without agenda. The transformation is paradoxical: the loss of all pretense and support may strip one to a state of radical innocence, where nothing remains but what is genuinely one's own.
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