无妄

Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 25: Innocence

Limitation
Water / Lake
无妄
Innocence
Heaven / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

征不以禮,辭乃无名。縱獲臣子,伯功不成。

Campaigning without proper rites, the cause has no just name. Though vassals and sons are captured, the hegemon's work remains incomplete.

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

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