噬嗑 → 无妄
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Line 5
六五 噬乾肉。得黃金。貞厲。无咎。
Six in the fifth place means: Bites on dried lean meat. Receives yellow gold. Perseveringly aware of danger. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
愛我嬰女，牽引不與；冀幸高貴，反得賤下。
Cherishing my infant daughter, pulling her close, refusing to yield; hoping for high nobility -- instead one gets the lowly.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire and thunder enforce the law, and here desire meets its inversion. Someone clings to a beloved daughter, pulling her close and refusing to let go, hoping for high nobility — but instead receives only lowliness. The verse describes the parent who grasps too tightly at an advantageous match, only to see expectations collapse into their opposite. From Biting Through to Innocence, heaven's thunder moves without ulterior motive. The irony is sharp: the scheming parent who manipulates the marriage market for advantage acts precisely contrary to Innocence's principle of acting without calculated expectation. What is grasped at with cunning slips away; what comes naturally under heaven's thunder arrives unsought.
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