无妄

Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 25: Innocence

Deliverance
Thunder / Water
无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

釣魴河湄,水長无涯,振手徒歸。上下昏迷,屬公孫齊。

Angling for bream on the rivers edge, the water stretches on without end. He shakes his empty hands and returns. Above and below, all is confusion; it pertains to Lord Gongsun of Qi.

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

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