解 → 无妄
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
Line 2
九二 田獲三狐。得黃矢。貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: One kills three foxes in the field And receives a yellow arrow. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 5
六五 君子維有解。吉。有孚于小人。
Six in the fifth place means: If only the superior man can deliver himself, It brings good fortune. Thus he proves to inferior men that he is in earnest.
Line 6
上六 公用射隼于高墉之上。獲之无不利。
Six at the top means: The prince shoots at a hawk on a high wall. He kills it. Everything serves to further.
Trigram Changes
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
Commentary
Thunder over water dissolves into heaven with thunder below — the unexpected of Innocence. Fishing for bream at the river's edge, but the water rises endlessly and one returns empty-handed. Above and below are lost in confusion, attributed to 'Lord Gongsun of Qi.' This figure may refer to a historical minister of Qi whose mismanagement led to chaos, though the exact allusion is uncertain. From Deliverance to Innocence, the transformation is paradoxical: one acts without guile yet catches nothing. Thunder beneath heaven moves all things without intention, yet the fisherman's honest effort meets only rising floodwaters. Sometimes the innocent suffer not through fault but through the sheer indifference of circumstance.
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