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Cast the I Ching · Hexagram 25 of 64

Hexagram Twenty-Five

无妄

Innocence

Thunder under heaven: unpremeditated action aligned with what is natural.

Qian: open sky
Upper trigram · Qian
Zhen: a forest before thunder
Lower trigram · Zhen

Thunder rolls beneath the whole sky — movement in accord with heaven, without scheming. Innocence praises the unforced act: work done because it is right and in season, not because an angle has been calculated. Its counsel is alignment over contrivance — plough without prearranging the harvest, respond truthfully to what arrives, and accept that the uncalculated path sometimes meets uncalculated weather. What is done without guile keeps its strength whatever the sky does.

On wealth

Act on sound fundamentals rather than clever angles; schemes built on contrivance read poorly here.

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