Hexagram 25: Innocence

無妄 (Wú Wàng)

Natural spontaneity and acting without ulterior motives.

Overview

Until now, your task was to correct your mistakes and get back on the right road. The present time offers good chances to anyone who is ready to use them.

Most likely you have already made up for your errors and cleared away the harm they caused. If so, you now stand free of mistakes.

You are on a path that leads straight to real creative work. You have cleared the space for what comes next, and you are waiting for the right moment to set out.

You can be proud of what you have done, and of yourself. Just do not become careless or slow. You need to stay alert, so that you can stop any trouble in time.

Your present situation is a time of transition. Keep all your plans under control, and do not let smaller matters pull you away.

Another mistake now would be dangerous. Do not rush ahead without preparing, and do not move before the moment to act has come. Turning away from your goal would be just as wrong.

People around you

The new people you have met recently have not become close to you yet. For different reasons, these connections seem frozen in one place. Do not break them with a careless word or action. Be gentle and considerate. That is how you can turn them into warm and trusting relationships.

Work

At work, choose familiar tasks, even dull ones. This is annoying, of course, but you need to hold on until this in-between period is over.

If you take on too much, you risk wearing yourself out and losing your ability to work at all.

Your wish

Your wish can come true very soon, though in part rather than in full.

This Overview is one traditional reading of the figure, offered as a prompt for reflection and perspective rather than a prediction of a fixed future. Where this material comes from.

New to the sequence? See how lines, trigrams and changing lines work, or cast your own reading with the three-coin method.

Structure

Read from the bottom upward, hexagram 25 is Heaven over Thunder. Its two inner, or nuclear, trigrams are Wind/Wood over Mountain. What the eight trigrams mean.

Upper trigram (lines 4–6): Qián · Heaven Creative and strong
Lower trigram (lines 1–3): Zhèn · Thunder Arousing and moving
Upper nuclear (lines 3–5): Xùn · Wind/Wood Gentle and penetrating
Lower nuclear (lines 2–4): Gèn · Mountain Still and stopping