萃 → 无妄
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Line 1
初六 有孚不終。乃亂乃萃。若號一握為笑。勿恤。往无咎。
Six at the beginning means: If you are sincere, but not to the end, There will sometimes be confusion, sometimes gathering together. If you call out, Then after one grasp of the hand you can laugh again. Regret not. Going is without blame.
Line 6
上六 齎咨涕洟。无咎。
Six at the top means: Lamenting and sighing, floods of tears. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
乘風上天，為時服軒。周旋萬里，无有患難。
Riding the wind, ascending to heaven, serving the age in a canopied chariot. Circling ten thousand li, free of peril or hardship.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to thunder moving beneath heaven, the unstoppable Innocence of natural momentum. Riding the wind, one ascends to heaven, serving the age as a grand chariot. Circling ten thousand li, there is no hardship or danger. The verse is pure exhilaration: effortless flight, universal service, boundless range without peril. No historical allusion is named; the imagery evokes the Daoist ideal of the perfected sage riding cosmic winds, as in Zhuangzi's description of Liezi. From Gathering to Innocence, the transformation reveals what becomes possible when assembly aligns with heaven's own movement. Thunder under heaven moves all things without ulterior motive; similarly, one who rides the wind serves spontaneously, covering vast distances without the friction that conscious striving creates.
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