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Without Contrivance
Upper trigram: Heaven · Lower trigram: Thunder
Judgment
Honest purpose neither prevents accidents nor validates every action.
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Heaven above Thunder; from bottom to top: yang, yin, yin, yang, yang, yang.
Distinguish sincerity, practical conditions, and chance loss.
Six lines and their changes
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Move from an honest purpose rather than a manufactured pretext.
Move this line → Blocked Exchange2 / 6
Do the work without treating its future yield as already yours.
Move this line → Treading Carefully3 / 6
An innocent loss shows that outcomes are not moral verdicts.
Move this line → Shared Purpose4 / 6
Keep a defensible principle despite external fluctuations.
Move this line → An Increase Shared5 / 6
The illness metaphor cautions against needless intervention, not medical treatment.
Move this line → Biting through Obstruction6 / 6
Honest intent does not make every moment suitable for action.
Move this line → Choosing What to Follow
Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.
Without Contrivance · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?
Heaven / Thunder. Heaven above Thunder; from bottom to top: yang, yin, yin, yang, yang, yang.
Without Contrivance · Move this line?
Change exactly one line, numbered from the bottom. Each of the six links below leads to the resulting figure.
Classical source · Traditional symbols offer a perspective for reflection, not a prediction of inevitable events.