In practice
The judgment
If you act with a pure heart, free of hidden motives and without straying from what is right, true to original human nature, you'll let the blessings of heaven reach you. Otherwise you'll meet obstacles and your affairs will become difficult.
The poetry
Without Falseness
Great success. Constancy is favorable. If it is not upright, there is calamity. It is not favorable to have somewhere to go.
The image
Thunder moves under heaven, and all things are without falseness. So the ancient kings, with abundance, answered the seasons and nurtured the ten thousand beings.
The lines
- Line 6上九
If you try to force things without waiting for the right conditions, you'll go astray and delay getting what you want.
Without falseness. Moving on brings calamity. Nothing is favorable.
- Line 5九五
If adverse things happen to you that aren't caused by your own negligence, don't worry: little by little things will straighten out until they're back on course.
An undeserved illness. Take no medicine: there will be joy.
- Line 4九四
No one can take from you what belongs to you, so keep doing the right thing at the right time, and you'll reap the fruits.
Constancy is possible. No fault.
- Line 3六三
Watch and act at the right time, because a good deed done at the wrong moment turns out badly.
An undeserved calamity: someone tied up an ox; the traveler takes it, and the calamity falls on the villagers.
- Line 2六二
Doing your work without thinking about what you'll get from it is the way to succeed.
Not plowing with the harvest in mind, not clearing land with the ripe field in mind: then it is favorable to have somewhere to go.
- Line 1初九
Follow the way of the heart: it will always know what is right at each moment. This will lead you to success.
Without falseness. Going brings good fortune.
Its 63 transformations
Depending on which lines move in your cast, Innocence turns into another hexagram. Pick the lines from your cast.
One moving line
6
Two moving lines
15
- 6Conflictlines 1 and 2
- 33Leaving Behindlines 1 and 3
- 1Activitylines 2 and 3
- 20Observinglines 1 and 4
- 61Inner Integritylines 2 and 4
- 37The Tribelines 3 and 4
- 35Advancelines 1 and 5
- 38Oppositeslines 2 and 5
- 30The Flamelines 3 and 5
- 27Nourishmentlines 4 and 5
- 45Meetinglines 1 and 6
- 58Inner Peacelines 2 and 6
- 49Renewallines 3 and 6
- 3Initial Obstacleslines 4 and 6
- 51Shocklines 5 and 6
Three moving lines
20
- 44Lack of Firmnesslines 1, 2, and 3
- 59Release from Obstacleslines 1, 2, and 4
- 53Gradual Progresslines 1, 3, and 4
- 9Small Thingslines 2, 3, and 4
- 64Transitionlines 1, 2, and 5
- 56The Travelerlines 1, 3, and 5
- 14Wealthlines 2, 3, and 5
- 23The Falllines 1, 4, and 5
- 41Decreaselines 2, 4, and 5
- 22Good Mannerslines 3, 4, and 5
- 47Overwhelmedlines 1, 2, and 6
- 31Attractionlines 1, 3, and 6
- 43Overflowinglines 2, 3, and 6
- 8Unionlines 1, 4, and 6
- 60Thriftlines 2, 4, and 6
- 63After the Endlines 3, 4, and 6
- 16Passionlines 1, 5, and 6
- 54A Subordinate Rolelines 2, 5, and 6
- 55Abundancelines 3, 5, and 6
- 24Coming Backlines 4, 5, and 6
Four moving lines
15
- 57Gentlenesslines 1, 2, 3, and 4
- 50The Vessel of Nourishmentlines 1, 2, 3, and 5
- 4Immaturitylines 1, 2, 4, and 5
- 52Abidinglines 1, 3, 4, and 5
- 26Great Achievementslines 2, 3, 4, and 5
- 28Excesseslines 1, 2, 3, and 6
- 29Waterlines 1, 2, 4, and 6
- 39Held Backlines 1, 3, 4, and 6
- 5Inactionlines 2, 3, 4, and 6
- 40Clearing Obstacleslines 1, 2, 5, and 6
- 62Success in Small Matterslines 1, 3, 5, and 6
- 34Great Manifestationlines 2, 3, 5, and 6
- 2Passivitylines 1, 4, 5, and 6
- 19Fleeting Successlines 2, 4, 5, and 6
- 36Darknesslines 3, 4, 5, and 6
Five moving lines
6
All six lines moving
1
The classical text
无妄：元亨。利貞。其匪正有眚，不利有攸往。
象曰：天下雷行，物與无妄；先王以茂對時，育萬物。
初九：无妄，往吉。
六二：不耕穫，不菑畬，則利有攸往。
六三：无妄之災，或繫之牛，行人之得，邑人之災。
九四：可貞，无咎。
九五：无妄之疾，勿藥有喜。
上九：无妄，行有眚，无攸利。
Related hexagrams
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.