无妄

Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 6: Conflict

无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven Heaven
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

不耕而獲,家食不給。中女無良,長子徒足。踈齒善市,商人有息。

Reaping without plowing; the household cannot feed itself. The middle daughter lacks virtue; the eldest son goes barefoot. Gap-toothed yet shrewd at market; the merchant earns his profit.

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

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