Hexagram 25 · line 6
Innocence
无妄Wú Wàng
Though free of wrongdoing, going forward brings trouble. Nothing is beneficial.
Line statement
上九
无妄，行有眚，无攸利。
Though free of wrongdoing, going forward brings trouble. Nothing is beneficial.
At the top line, unforced movement has gone past its span. The firm top yields, Heaven becomes Lake, and Hexagram 17 joins that Lake to Thunder as Following.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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