无妄

Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 25: Innocence

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

鳴條之圖,北奔犬胡。左衽為長,國號匈奴。主君旄頭,立尊單于。

The map of Mingtiao; fleeing north to the Dog Barbarians. Wearing left-folded robes as their way, their state is called Xiongnu. Their lord follows the yak-tail standard; they set up and honor the Chanyu.

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

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