Hexagram 25 · line 3
Innocence
无妄Wú Wàng
An undeserved disaster: a tethered ox is taken by a passerby. The traveler gains, while the people of the settlement suffer.
Line statement
六三
无妄之災，或繫之牛，行人之得，邑人之災。
An undeserved disaster: a tethered ox is taken by a passerby. The traveler gains, while the people of the settlement suffer.
At Line 3, gain and loss fall on different people without matching intention. The line turns firm, lower Thunder becomes Fire, and the result is Hexagram 13, Fire below Heaven.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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