蠱 → 无妄
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 幹父之蠱。有子。考无咎。厲終吉。
Six in the beginning means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. If there is a son, No blame rests upon the departed father. Danger. In the end good fortune.
Line 2
九二 幹母之蠱。不可貞。
Nine in the second place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother. One must not be too persevering.
Line 3
九三 幹父之蠱。小有悔。无大咎。
Nine in the third place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. There will be a little remorse. No great blame.
Line 4
六四 裕父之蠱。往見吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
Line 5
六五 幹父之蠱。用譽。
Six in the fifth place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. One meets with praise.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
福祿不遂，家多怪祟；麋鹿悲啼，思其大雄。
Fortune and favor fail to come; the household is plagued by strange hauntings. The elk and deer cry mournfully, longing for their great stag.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain brings misfortune home, and the transformation erupts as heaven's thunder — the startling honesty of Innocence. Fortune and blessings fail to materialize; the household is plagued by strange hauntings. A deer cries mournfully, longing for its great stag. The domestic scene is one of spiritual affliction — not mere material want but an uncanny wrongness pervading the home. The deer's cry for its lost mate adds a note of primal grief. From Work on the Decayed to Innocence, the remedy is radical sincerity. Thunder moving beneath heaven strikes without warning, clearing falsehood and restoring the natural order. The haunted household can only be cleansed when its inhabitants abandon pretense and return to what is genuine.
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