夬 → 无妄
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
九二 惕號。莫夜有戎。勿恤。
Nine in the second place means: A cry of alarm. Arms at evening and at night. Fear nothing.
Line 3
九三 壯于頄。有凶。君子夬夬。獨行遇雨。若濡有慍。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: To be powerful in the cheekbones Brings misfortune. The superior man is firmly resolved. He walks alone and is caught in the rain. He is bespattered, And people murmur against him. No blame.
Line 6
上六 无號。終有凶。
Six at the top means: No cry. In the end misfortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
戴笠獨宿，晝不見日。勤苦无代，長勞悲思。
Wearing a straw hat, sleeping alone; by day the sun cannot be seen. Toiling without relief; long labor and sorrowful thoughts.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake risen above heaven faces the thunder rolling under an open sky. Wearing a broad-brimmed hat, sleeping alone, unable to see the sun even in daylight. Toiling without relief, enduring prolonged sorrow and bitter longing. The solitary figure in his straw hat labors under overcast skies — the sun exists but is hidden, as if the heavens have sealed themselves off. There is no substitute worker, no respite, only the grinding repetition of unrelieved effort. From Breakthrough to Innocence, decisive resolution meets the condition of being without guile or protection. Thunder beneath heaven moves without premeditation, but here that rawness manifests as vulnerability. The innocent laborer has no shelter from misfortune — he simply endures, hatted against a sun he cannot see.
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