无妄

Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 25: Innocence

Return
Earth / Thunder
无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

踦牛傷暑,不能成畝。草萊不墾,年歲無有。

A lame ox, stricken by heat; it cannot plow a furrow. Weeds and briars go uncleared; the year yields nothing.

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

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