无妄 → 賁
Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
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.
Line 4
九四 可貞。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: He who can be persevering Remains without blame.
Line 5
九五 无妄之疾。勿藥有喜。
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
Yilin Verse
織縷未就，勝折無後。女工多能，亂我政事。
The weaving is not yet done; the thread breaks and has no heir. The woman works with many skills; yet she throws my governance into disorder.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
The weaving is unfinished, the shuttle has snapped, and there will be no successor. The woman's handiwork is abundant and skillful, yet it disrupts governance. This verse invokes the ancient political metaphor of the hen crowing at dawn — female skill misdirected into the political sphere undermines proper order. From Innocence to Grace, the transformation is ironic: Bi's image of fire beneath the mountain produces elegant surface beauty, yet the verse warns that decorative skill without structural integrity is fatal. The broken shuttle produces no cloth; the capable woman who meddles in politics leaves no legitimate heir. Grace without substance becomes the very corruption Wuwang was meant to prevent.
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