恆 → 无妄
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 浚恆貞凶。无攸利。
Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Line 2
九二 悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Remorse disappears.
Line 3
九三 不恆其德。或承之羞。貞吝。
Nine in the third place means: He who does not give duration to his character Meets with disgrace. Persistent humiliation.
Line 5
六五 恒其德貞。婦人吉。夫子凶。
Six in the fifth place means: Giving duration to one's character through perseverance. This is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man.
Line 6
上六 振恆凶。
Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
飛來之福，入我嘉室，以安吾國。
Blessings arrive unbidden, entering our fine chamber, bringing peace to our realm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's faithful rhythm, lifts into heaven above thunder — Innocence's spontaneous rightness. Unexpected blessings fly in and enter the fine household, bringing security to the nation. The verse is brief and luminous: fortune arrives unsought, settling naturally where conditions are right. Duration's patient constancy creates the conditions for grace to alight — the household that has maintained itself through steady virtue becomes the landing place for heaven-sent blessings. From Duration to Innocence, the enduring pattern aligns with heaven's thunder moving below, the cosmic order in its most natural state. What comes unbidden proves most lasting; the fortune that flies in was not chased but attracted by the quiet magnetism of a well-ordered life.
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