无妄 → 家人
Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
眾神集聚，相與議語；南國虐亂，百姓愁苦。興師征討，更立聖主。
The many spirits gather; conferring together in council. The southern kingdom suffers tyranny; the hundred clans grieve in sorrow. Raising an army to campaign; a sage ruler is established anew.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
The assembled spirits gather to deliberate among themselves. The southern kingdom is in tyrannical chaos, and the common people groan in misery. An army is raised to punish the oppressor, and a sagely ruler is established in his place. From Innocence to The Family, the transformation reveals that restoring domestic order sometimes requires divine intervention channeled through martial force. Jiaren's image of wind emerging from fire suggests that warmth within the household radiates outward as transforming influence. The spirits' council precedes righteous war — not aggression but corrective action sanctioned from above. When innocence encounters systemic cruelty, the proper family order can only be restored by removing the tyrant and installing virtue at the center.
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