賁 → 无妄
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
Line 3
九三 賁如濡如。永貞吉。
Nine in the third place means: Graceful and moist. Constant perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 4
六四 賁如皤如。白馬翰如。匪寇婚媾。
Six in the fourth place means: Grace or simplicity? A white horse comes as if on wings. He is not a robber, He will woo at the right time.
Line 5
六五 賁于丘園。束帛戔戔。吝。終吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Grace in the hills and gardens. The roll of silk is meager and small. Humiliation, but in the end good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鶴盜我珠，逃於東都。鵠怒追求，郭氏之墟。不見蹤跡，反為患災。
A crane steals my pearl and flees to the eastern capital. The swan goose gives chase in anger, to the ruins of the Guo domain. No trace is found; instead, calamity befalls.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain reveals a theft and a futile chase. A crane steals one's pearl and escapes to the eastern capital. An enraged swan pursues it, reaching the ruins of the Guo state, but finds no trace — and the pursuit itself becomes a disaster. The pearl, once a source of brilliance, is lost to a thief who flies beyond reach. The eastern capital (Luoyang) and the ruins of Guo evoke the collapse of small states destroyed by larger powers during the Spring and Autumn period. From Grace to Innocence, the mountain's fire yields to thunder moving beneath heaven. Innocence (Wuwang) warns against reckless action untethered from reality: the swan's angry chase, driven by righteous fury, produces only calamity. Sometimes the proper response to loss is to stop pursuing.
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