无妄 → 渙
Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).
Line 1
初九 无妄。往吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Innocent behavior brings good fortune.
Line 2
六二 不耕穫。不菑畬。則利有攸往。
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 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
狗生龍馬，公勞嫗苦。家無善駒，折悔為吝。
A dog gives birth to a dragon-horse; the old man toils, the old woman suffers. The household has no fine steed; regret turns to miserly shame.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A dog gives birth to a dragon-horse — an absurd inversion of natural order. The old man toils and the old woman suffers, yet the household has no fine steed. Misfortune folds into regret, and regret contracts into stinginess. The dragon-horse, that mythological creature bearing the River Chart on its back, should herald the birth of cosmic order — but born from a dog, the omen is grotesque rather than auspicious. From Innocence to Dispersion, the transformation scatters what should cohere. Huan's image of wind over water disperses accumulated formations. The misbegotten prodigy embodies this dissolution: promise born from the wrong source disperses rather than gathers, leaving only exhaustion and the bitter mathematics of loss.
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