无妄

Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 25: Innocence

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

織金未成,緯畫無名。長子逐兔,鹿起失路。後利不得,因無所據。

The golden weave is not yet finished; the weft-pattern has no name. The eldest son chases a rabbit; a deer springs up, and he loses the path. Later profit is not gained; there is nothing to rely upon.

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

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