大畜 → 无妄
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 2
九二 輿說輹。
Nine in the second place means: The axletrees are taken from the wagon.
Line 3
九三 良馬逐。利艱貞。曰閑輿衛。利有攸往。
Nine in the third place means. A good horse that follows others. Awareness of danger, With perseverance, furthers. Practice chariot driving and armed defense daily. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
Line 4
六四 童牛之牿。元吉。
Six in the fourth place means: The headboard of a young bull. Great good fortune.
Line 5
六五 豶豕之牙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The tusk of a gelded boar. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
不直杜公，與我爭訟。媒伯無禮，自令塞壅。
The crooked Duke Du contends with me in litigation. The matchmaker lacks propriety, bringing only obstruction and blockage upon himself.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain becomes thunder moving under heaven — Innocence. An unjust Master Du brings lawsuits against me. The matchmaker acts without propriety, bringing only obstruction upon himself. The verse paints a picture of entanglement with dishonest people who twist institutions — courts and marriage brokers — to serve their own ends. From Great Taming to Innocence, the mountain's stored heaven should become the thunder of heaven's spontaneous action, free from calculation. But the verse warns: when intermediaries act without integrity, innocence is corrupted at the source. The man who accumulates virtue still faces those who weaponize the very structures meant to serve justice. True innocence survives, but not without friction.
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