Hexagram 25 · line 5
Innocence
无妄Wú Wàng
An undeserved illness. Here the ancient text counsels against medicine; there is cause for joy.
Line statement
九五
无妄之疾，勿藥有喜。
An undeserved illness. Here the ancient text counsels against medicine; there is cause for joy.
An unbidden ailment reaches Line 5, the center of outer Heaven. In the traditional reading, it is not caused by wrongdoing and passes without intervention. Changing Line 5 makes Fire above Thunder, Hexagram 21. The medical phrase is a received image, not health guidance.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 2: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes