Hexagram 25
Innocence
Heaven over Thunder
The judgment
元亨。利贞。其匪正有眚，不利有攸往Thunder moves under heaven and nothing here is invented. Meet what is there and the way stays clear; substitute a story for it and the same ground turns on you.
The image
Thunder rolls under an open sky with nothing added to it. The season arrives whether or not anyone calls it.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初九Line 1
无妄，往吉
Setting out with nothing in hand works; setting out to secure an advantage trips you before the first step.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 六二Line 2
不耕获，不菑畬，则利有攸往
Stop watching for the harvest and finish the patch in front of you; measure the return as you go and your hands stall.
- 六三Line 3
无妄之灾，或系之牛，行人之得，邑人之灾
A trouble that was never yours arrives anyway: a passerby leads off the ox, and the one who stayed behind pays.
- 九四Line 4
可贞，无咎
Close to the one in charge, watched from every side; holding your posture still costs less than speaking up early.
Marked in the textno blame
- 九五Line 5
无妄之疾，勿药有喜
This ailment needs no medicine; the more you treat it, the longer it clings. Leave it and it fades.
- 上九Line 6
无妄，行有眚，无攸利
One more step at the very end lands in a pit; stopping here saves more than pressing on.
Marked in the textnothing is served
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram