无妄 → 乾
Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
六二 不耕穫。不菑畬。則利有攸往。
Six in the second place means: If one does not count on the harvest while plowing, Nor on the use of the ground while clearing it, It furthers one to undertake something.
Line 3
六三 无妄之災。或繫之牛。行人之得。邑人之災。
Six in the third place means: Undeserved misfortune. The cow that was tethered by someone Is the wanderer's gain, the citizen's loss.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
儋耳穿胸，僵離旁舂。天地易紀，日月更始。蝮螫我手，痛為吾毒。
Drooping ears, pierced chests; the stricken lie stiff, pounding grain aside. Heaven and earth shift their order; sun and moon begin anew. A viper stings my hand; the pain becomes my poison.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rolls beneath heaven, the spontaneous motion of Innocence. The verse opens with exotic peoples from the far reaches of the known world — the long-eared Daner and the hole-chested Chuanxiong, described in the Shanhaijing as dwelling at civilization's edge. Their bodies are battered, pounded like grain in a mortar. Then the cosmos itself resets: heaven and earth change their calendar, sun and moon begin anew. Yet a viper strikes the hand, and its poison becomes one's own suffering. From Innocence to the Creative, the transformation distills Wuwang's central paradox: spontaneous action invites both cosmic renewal and unforeseeable harm. The Creative's self-generating power demands endurance through disruption, for even when heaven reorders the world, venom still finds flesh.
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