What this change means
Fire above the lake: as the fifth and second lines move, Heaven becomes Fire and Thunder becomes Lake, and Innocence turns into 38 Opposites. The fifth line weighs most: trouble you didn't earn needs no forced cure, since it tends to resolve with time. The second asks you to work without eyeing the harvest. The resulting hexagram describes opposition: people around you are different from you, yet you have to share a task with them, and only small things can be achieved for now. Read together, these lines advise calm and generosity. Don't take friction personally or try to fix it with dramatic gestures. Do your part well for its own sake, keep your nature, and let others keep theirs. Contributing from your own ground to something shared is enough. Differences don't need to be erased for the work to move.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 5 of 25 Innocence
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 2 of 25 Innocence
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.
- The judgment of 25 Innocence
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.
Great success. Constancy is favorable. If it is not upright, there is calamity. It is not favorable to have somewhere to go.
- The judgment of 38 Opposites
You're in a situation of opposition: the people around you are different from you, yet you need to share with them. This means that what you can achieve for now is small. Even so, don't give in. It matters that both you and they keep your own nature and contribute from there to a shared project.
In small matters, good fortune.
The trigrams
The way back
38 Opposites → 25 Innocencelines 2 and 5
Other transformations of Innocence
- 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
- 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
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.