大過 → 无妄
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).
Line 1
初六 藉用白茅。无咎。
Six at the beginning means: To spread white rushes underneath. No blame.
Line 2
九二 枯楊生稊。老夫得其女妻。无不利。
Nine in the second place means: A dry poplar sprouts at the root. An older man takes a young wife. Everything furthers.
Line 3
九三 棟橈。凶。
Nine in the third place means: The ridgepole sags to the breaking point. Misfortune.
Line 6
上六 過涉滅頂。凶。无咎。
Six at the top means: One must go through the water. It goes over one's head. Misfortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
風怒漂水，女惑生疾。陽失其服，陰孽為賊。
Wind rages, scattering water; the woman is beguiled and falls ill. Yang loses its proper garb; yin’s wickedness becomes the thief.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind meets heaven above thunder — Innocence, where the unexpected strikes without moral cause. Angry wind churns the water; a woman is beguiled and falls ill. Yang loses its proper garments, and yin's malignant growth becomes a thief. The verse depicts cosmic disorder manifesting as personal calamity: wind and water in violent collision, feminine energy corrupted into illness, masculine order stripped of its authority. In the framework of Innocence, disaster arrives not as punishment but as the amoral blow of circumstance. From Great Exceeding to Innocence, the overburdened structure releases chaotic energy that strikes without warning or justice. The woman's illness and yang's disrobing are not caused by moral failure — they are the collateral damage of a system pushed past its breaking point.
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