无妄大有

Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 14: Great Possession

无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
大有
Great Possession
Fire / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).

Line 2

六二 不耕穫。不菑畬。則利有攸往。

when
gēngploughing
huòto
and when
clearing
in
then
worthwhile
yǒuto have
yōusomewhere
wǎngto go

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。

one without
wàngpretense
zhīstill
zāimisfortune
huòas when somebody
tethers
zhīone's
niúox
xíngon the move
rénis
zhīhas
an
and is a
réninhabitant
zhī...'s
zāithe calamity

Six in the third place means: Undeserved misfortune. The cow that was tethered by someone Is the wanderer's gain, the citizen's loss.

Line 5

九五 无妄之疾。勿藥有喜。

one without
wàngpretense
zhīstill
illness
do not
yàomedicate
yǒuto attain
happiness

Nine in the fifth place means: Use no medicine in an illness Incurred through no fault of your own. It will pass of itself.

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative

Yilin Verse

海河都市,國之奧府。商人受福,少子玉食。

Sea and river, a great market; the realm's innermost storehouse. Merchants receive blessings; the young feast on jade-like delicacies.

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

Commentary

Rivers and seas converge at the capital, forming the nation's innermost treasury. Merchants receive blessings, and the youngest son feasts on jade-like delicacies. This is commerce as cosmic gift — not the striving of Conflict's trader but the natural abundance of a well-situated state. From Innocence to Great Possession, the transformation follows heaven's spontaneous generosity to its fullest expression. Fire in heaven illuminates all below, and Dayou's image of abundance earned through virtue radiates without obstruction. The 'innermost treasury' echoes the hexagram's name: great possession is not hoarded but flows through proper channels like rivers reaching the sea, enriching everyone it touches.

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