Yarrow 综卦 source note · 2026-07-17

Wu Wang and Da Xu: What a Zong Gua Inverse Pair Shows

Compare Hexagram 25 Wu Wang (Innocence) and Hexagram 26 Da Xu (Great Taming) as a zong gua inverse pair: reversed line order changes viewing direction without forecasting a transition.

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25 · Wu Wang · Innocence

INNOCENCE. Supreme success. Furtherance through perseverance. He who departs from the right way meets with misfortune; it does not further him to undertake anything. Commentary on the Decision: In Innocence, the firm comes from without and becomes ruler within. Movement joined with strength; the firm is central and finds response.

Wu Wang depicts for us such a scene: thunder rumbles, clouds drift and rain falls, and along with the thunder and rain, all things flourish joyfully upon the earth.

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26 · Da Xu · Great Taming

THE GREAT TAMING. Furtherance through perseverance. Not eating at home brings good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water. The Commentary on the Decision says: The Great Taming. Firm strength and genuine substance; its radiance shines forth and renews itself day by day. Its virtue is firm above and honors the worthy.

Mountains possess the nature of storing things, and Heaven possesses the virtue of strength and vigor, the beauty of the sun and moon's radiance, and the nourishment of rain and dew, while mountains hold the sincerity...

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What the 综卦 relation actually says

The local structured corpus records Hexagram 25's 综卦 (zong gua, inverse) as Hexagram 26, and Hexagram 26's inverse as Hexagram 25. In the corpus's stored six-line sequence, 111100 becomes 001111 when the order is reversed. Turning the figure end for end changes line positions while preserving each line's yin or yang polarity.

Reverse, compare, then test

Draw 111100 and 001111 in two columns, reverse the first sequence, and verify the match. Then copy one concrete phrase from the reference layer for Wu Wang and one from Da Xu; name one observable condition supporting each lens, choose one reversible check, and write what evidence would make you review the choice.

Common misread to avoid

A zong gua pair is not a before-and-after promise. Wu Wang does not automatically become Da Xu; reversed structure neither ranks the two figures nor says which one must follow.

Source boundary

The reference layers and the zong-gua relationship come from Yarrow's bundled structured Zhouyi corpus. The English wording is an editorial explanation of that stored relation. This note is not a fresh cast, a forecast, or a claim that one hexagram must turn into the other.