Hexagram 25 · line 1
Innocence
无妄Wú Wàng
Without contrivance, going forward is favorable.
Line statement
初九
无妄，往吉。
Without contrivance, going forward is favorable.
Line 1 carries the first uncontrived movement. When its firm base turns yielding, the lower Thunder becomes Earth and the result is Hexagram 12, Heaven separated from Earth.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
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