Wu Wang · Innocence

The meaning

What the name means Wu Wang is not acting rashly: no falseness, going with what is real.

The picture Thunder rolling under heaven, heaven keeping its constancy and everything finding its place.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about sincerity without scheming. Do not play tricks or hope for luck; do your part. If a crooked thought is kept, an unexpected trouble comes with it.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Act without scheming, following your own heart. The unexpected still comes, but with an open heart there is no need to frighten yourself.

The upper trigram is Heaven and the lower is Thunder: Heaven above, Thunder below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

元亨利貞。其匪正有眚，不利有攸往。

The image

天下雷行，物與無妄；先王以茂對時，育萬物。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初九無妄，往吉。
2. 六二不耕穫，不菑畬，則利有攸往。
3. 六三無妄之災，或繫之牛，行人之得，邑人之災。
4. 九四可貞，無咎。
5. 九五無妄之疾，勿藥有喜。
6. 上九無妄，行有眚，無攸利。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".