Hexagram 25 for love
Hexagram 25 Without Falsehood in love and relationships
Wu Wang pictures thunder moving under heaven: things stirring by their own nature, without pretence. In a relationship this is the sign of feeling that is genuine and unplanned — the judgment grants 'great success' to what is sincere and correct, and warns that anything crooked 'falls into error'. The lines show innocence at different stages: the clean beginning of line one, the second line's love that does not keep accounts, and the third and fifth lines where a bond that has done nothing wrong is shaken by something from outside.
For a question about love the hexagram asks whether you are acting from the heart or from strategy. If the feeling is honest, move with it and do not manage it; if there is a plan behind the affection, the hexagram withdraws its blessing. A changing line in the lower trigram usually means the bond is young and should be allowed to grow without pressure; the top line warns that insisting on your own blamelessness has become a way of not listening.
The hexagram in brief
Thunder under heaven: things moving by their innate nature. Great success for what is correct and unplanned; scheming brings misfortune, and some misfortune simply arrives undeserved.
Act from sincerity without calculation; when the unexpected strikes, don't medicate what needs no medicine.
The judgment
无妄：元亨，利貞。其匪正有眚，不利有攸往。Wû Wang indicates great progress and success, while there will be advantage in being firm and correct. If (its subject and his action) be not correct, he will fall into errors, and it will not be advantageous for him to move in any direction.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 无妄 Without Falsehood has its own page:
- 初九Nine at the beginningsincere start · go forward · the will fulfilled
- 六二Six in the second placeno harvest in mind · unforced work · ready for anything
- 六三Six in the third placeundeserved loss · the tethered ox · wrong place
- 九四Nine in the fourth placehold firm · no partner · what is yours
- 九五Nine in the fifth placeunprovoked trouble · do not meddle · it passes
- 上九Nine at the toptime exhausted · do not act · innocence overstretched
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Questions
- Is hexagram 25, Without Falsehood, a good sign for love?
- Wu Wang pictures thunder moving under heaven: things stirring by their own nature, without pretence. In a relationship this is the sign of feeling that is genuine and unplanned — the judgment grants 'great success' to what is sincere and correct, and warns that anything crooked 'falls into error'. The lines show innocence at different stages: the clean beginning of line one, the second line's love that does not keep accounts, and the third and fifth lines where a bond that has done nothing wrong is shaken by something from outside.
- What does Hexagram 25, 无妄 Without Falsehood, mean?
- Thunder under heaven: things moving by their innate nature. Great success for what is correct and unplanned; scheming brings misfortune, and some misfortune simply arrives undeserved.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).