I Ching: Monday, September 28

One of the sixty-four hexagrams

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Innocence

Hexagram 25 is thunder moving under heaven, things responding to the season without calculation. It gets the four great words and then a condition in the same breath: whoever is not upright meets trouble, and it does not help them to undertake anything. Innocence protects only when it is real. Today, act without the angle. The moment you find yourself working out how a plain action will look, the hexagram has already turned against you. Do the unpremeditated thing, the one you would do if nobody were keeping score, and do not undertake anything that needs a plan behind the plan.

For your star sign

The same reading, taken through each sign of the zodiac.

Aries

You act without calculating, which is the hexagram, and you also act without looking, which is not. Today the innocence is real; keep it upright by checking once that the plain thing is the right one.

Taurus

You are in step with the season by nature. Today the Judgment adds the condition: the uprightness has to be real, not habitual. Do the natural thing because it is right, not because it is what you always do.

Gemini

You will act and then construct the innocent reason afterwards. That is the angle the hexagram warns against. Today do the thing with no reason attached, and let it stand without the story.

Cancer

You act from feeling and call it innocence. Today check that the feeling is upright and not just strong. The unpremeditated act protects only when it would survive being seen.

Leo

You will do the natural thing and make sure it is noticed. Today the noticing is the calculation. Act as if nobody were watching, and the thunder under heaven is on your side.

Virgo

Innocence is not carelessness, and you will treat it as though it were. Today the unpremeditated act is the right one done without the plan. Do it before the plan forms.

Libra

You will weigh the innocent act against its consequences. The weighing is the premeditation. Today act in step with the season and let the consequences be the season's.

Scorpio

You do nothing without an angle, and today the angle is the fault. Do one thing with no strategy behind it and notice that the hexagram gives it the four great words.

Sagittarius

You act on impulse and call it innocence. Today the Judgment asks whether the impulse is upright. If it is, ride it; if it is merely fast, the trouble is yours.

Capricorn

Nothing you do is unpremeditated and today the hexagram asks for exactly that. One act without a purpose behind the purpose. It will feel like a lapse and it is the reading.

Aquarius

You will act on principle and call it innocence. Principle is a calculation. Today do the natural, seasonal, unargued thing and leave the principle in the drawer.

Pisces

You are innocent by temperament and the Judgment adds uprightness. Today the unpremeditated act needs a spine. Do the natural thing and mean it.

For your Chinese animal

The same reading, taken through each animal of the Chinese zodiac.

Rat

You cannot act without an angle, and today the angle is what meets trouble. Do one thing with no advantage in it. The hexagram is specific that the innocence has to be real.

Ox

You act naturally and slowly, in step with the season, which is the hexagram exactly. Today the addition is uprightness: make sure the natural thing is also the right one, then do it.

Tiger

You will act first and be innocent about it afterwards. Today the innocence has to come first. Act without calculation and without haste, which for you are two different disciplines.

Rabbit

You do the careful thing and call it innocent. Care is premeditation. Today do the plain thing without the safeguards, upright and unarranged.

Dragon

You will act grandly and call it natural. Today the natural act is small and in season. Do it without the scale, and the hexagram's four great words are for that.

Snake

Nothing you do is unpremeditated. Today one thing must be. Do it and do not explain it, since the explanation is where the calculation lives.

Horse

You act without thinking and the hexagram asks for acting without calculating, which is different. Today be upright as well as quick. The season rewards the first, not the second.

Goat

You will do the innocent thing and ask whether it was right. Today it was, if it was upright. Act, and do not audit the act for approval afterwards.

Monkey

You cannot resist the clever version of the plain act. Today the plain version. The hexagram turns against whoever has an angle, and cleverness is one.

Rooster

You will do the correct thing and call it innocent. Correctness is a calculation. Today do the natural thing, in step with the season, and let correctness follow if it does.

Dog

You act loyally without calculating, which is close to the hexagram. Today check the loyalty is upright rather than merely faithful. The innocent act serves the right thing, not just the near one.

Pig

You act naturally and comfortably. Today the Judgment asks whether the natural act is upright. If it is, the day is yours; if it is only comfortable, undertake nothing.

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