Hexagram 25: Innocence天雷无妄 · Wú Wàng

• Upper trigram　Qián, Heaven: strength, creation and the drive to move forward.
• Lower trigram　Zhèn, Thunder: arousal, beginnings and sudden change.

The Judgment

Supreme success through perseverance. One who is not as one should be meets misfortune, and it does not further to go anywhere.

元亨利貞。其匪正有眚，不利有攸往。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Sincerity and acting without pretence. Today suits letting things take their natural course and doing honest work, without cutting corners or forcing extra results.

Something to do today

• As you work today, do only what is truly needed and do not push for more.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.