无妄

Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 25: Innocence

Contemplation
Wind / Earth
无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative
Lower TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

蝸螺生子,深目黑醜;雖飾相就,眾人莫取。

The snail bears its young, deep-eyed and dark and unsightly; though adorned and presented, no one among the crowd will take it.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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