无妄

Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

慈母之恩,長大無孫。消息襁褓,害不入門。

The kindly mother's grace; grown tall, yet without grandchildren. Watching over the swaddling cloth; harm does not enter the gate.

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

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