Hexagram 25 · line 2
Innocence
无妄Wú Wàng
Without plowing, there is harvest; without clearing a first-year field, there is a mature field. Then proceeding is beneficial.
Line statement
六二
不耕穫，不菑畬，則利有攸往。
Without plowing, there is harvest; without clearing a first-year field, there is a mature field. Then proceeding is beneficial.
The traditional reading takes the agricultural image as work without calculating its reward in advance. Changing Line 2 turns lower Thunder into Lake and produces Hexagram 10, Heaven above Lake.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes