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I Ching · Hexagram 25 Innocence

Hexagram 25 for money: Innocence

無妄 Wú Wàng · Money

Do not scheme. Honest dealing, straightforward work and acceptance of what comes. The reading warns against calculated moves and against reacting to a setback by abandoning your principles.

Thunder below, heaven above: movement in accord with heaven. Innocence describes action that springs from an honest nature rather than from scheming, and the tradition ties it to the unexpected: what comes to the person who acts without ulterior motive cannot be planned and is not always pleasant. The judgement promises great success with persistence, and warns that anyone not as they should be will meet misfortune. The reading asks for sincerity without agenda. It also says, in the lines, that undeserved misfortune can happen to the innocent, and that the right response is not to lose one's innocence over it.

Advice
Act from honest motives without calculation, and take what comes without losing your integrity.
Warning
The moment innocence becomes a strategy, it stops working and misfortune follows.

The changing lines, read for money

If your cast of Hexagram 25 had changing lines, these are what each one adds to a money question, and where each leads.

  1. Line 1 · changes into 12 Standstill

    Innocent action brings good fortune. Follow your honest first impulse.

  2. Line 2 · changes into 10 Treading

    Not counting on the harvest while ploughing, nor on the third year's field while clearing. It furthers to undertake something. Do the work well and let the reward look after itself.

  3. Line 3 · changes into 13 Fellowship

    Undeserved misfortune. The cow tethered by a wanderer is the passer-by's gain and the villager's loss. Accept the undeserved loss without becoming someone who deserves one.

  4. Line 4 · changes into 42 Increase

    One who can be persistent remains without blame. Hold your ground and your principles; that is enough here.

  5. Line 5 · changes into 21 Biting Through

    Illness not of one's own making. Use no medicine; it will pass by itself. Do not intervene in a trouble that will pass by itself.

  6. Line 6 · changes into 17 Following

    Innocent action brings misfortune. Nothing furthers. The time is wrong; even a good act misfires now. Wait.

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