乾 → 離
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Line 2
九二 見龍在田。利見大人。
Nine in the second place means: Dragon appearing in the field. It furthers one to see the great man.
Line 5
九五 飛龍在天。利見大人。
Nine in the fifth place means: Flying dragon in the heavens. It furthers one to see the great man.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
胎生孚乳，長息成就。充滿帝室，家國昌富。
Conceived in the womb, nursed and nurtured; growing to completion. Filling the imperial household; the family and state prosper and abound.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
From conception to birth and nursing, offspring grow to maturity. They fill the imperial chambers; family and state flourish together. From Creative to The Clinging, doubled fire — the great person sustains this brightness to illuminate all four directions. The verse traces a complete arc of generative power: conception, gestation, nursing, and maturation, culminating in a household so abundant it fills the royal halls. Li's fire is the fire of continuity — one flame lighting the next. Heaven's creative impulse, channeled through the biological chain of birth and nourishment, becomes the dynasty itself: each generation a new flame lit from the last, brightness propagated endlessly forward.
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