无妄

Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

烹魚失刀,駕馬車亡。鉛刀不及,魴鯉腥臊。

Cooking fish, the knife is lost; harnessing the horse, the cart is gone. A lead blade falls short; bream and carp reek of rot.

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

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