大有 → 无妄
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
Line 2
九二 大車以載。有攸往。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: A big wagon for loading. One may undertake something. No blame.
Line 3
九三 公用亨于天子。小人弗克 。
Nine in the third place means: A prince offers it to the Son of Heaven. A petty man cannot do this.
Line 5
六五 厥孚交如。威如。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: He whose truth is accessible, yet dignified, Has good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
牧羊逢狼，雖憂不傷；畏怖既息，終無禍殃。
Herding sheep, one encounters a wolf; though alarmed, no harm comes. Fear and dread subside; in the end there is no misfortune.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A shepherd herding his flock encounters a wolf — alarming, but no harm comes. The fear subsides, and in the end no calamity befalls. The verse is a miniature fable of innocence preserved: the shepherd does not provoke the wolf, the wolf does not attack, and the crisis passes as naturally as it arose. From Great Possession to Innocence, fire over heaven gives way to thunder moving beneath heaven — action aligned with heaven's will, free from ulterior motive. The shepherd embodies Innocence's principle: by not calculating or scheming, by simply being present with his flock, he passes through danger unscathed. The wolf is real, the fear is real, but the absence of false expectation transforms the encounter from disaster to deliverance.
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