Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)
above:Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below:Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder
Wu 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.
Overall Meaning
Freedom from error, the symbol of innocence
Wang is the symbol of being reckless, and often of being insincere; Wu Wang is descriptive of a state of entire freedom from such a condition; its subject is one who is entirely simple and sincere. The quality is characteristic of the action of Heaven, and of the highest style of humanity. In this hexagram we have an essay on this noble attribute. An absolute rectitude is essential to it. The nearer one comes to the ideal of the quality, the more powerful will be his influence, the greater his success. But let him see to it that he never swerve from being correct.