小畜 → 无妄
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
九二 牽復。吉。
Nine in the second place means: He allows himself to be drawn into returning. Good fortune.
Line 3
九三 輿說輻。夫妻反目。
Nine in the third place means: The spokes burst out of the wagon wheels. Man and wife roll their eyes.
Line 4
六四 有孚。血去惕出。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: If you are sincere, blood vanishes and fear gives way. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
騋牝龍身，日馭三千，南止蒼梧，與福為婚。道里夷易，安全無忌。
A tall mare with a dragon is form, galloping three thousand li by day. Halting south at Cangwu; wedded to good fortune. The road is smooth and easy; safe and free from hindrance.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven yields to thunder rolling beneath heaven's vault — Innocence's natural spontaneity. A great mare with a dragon's body covers three thousand leagues a day, halting in the south at Cangwu — the distant land where Emperor Shun died and was buried. Fortune and blessing attend the journey as companions. The road is smooth and easy; all is safe, with nothing to fear. From Small Taming to Innocence, gentle restraint opens into heaven-sanctioned movement that encounters no false obstacle. The dragon-mare embodies Wu Wang's principle: when action proceeds from genuine nature rather than scheming calculation, even the most extraordinary journey unfolds without impediment. Innocence is not naivety but alignment with cosmic order.
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