泰 → 離
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
九二 包荒。用馮河。不遐遺。朋亡。得尚于中行。
Nine in the second place means: Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness, Fording the river with resolution, Not neglecting what is distant, Not regarding one's companions: Thus one may manage to walk in the middle.
Line 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Line 6
上六 城復于隍。勿用師。自邑告命。貞吝。
Six at the top means: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
危坐至暮，請求不得；膏澤不降，政戾民忒。
Drought scorches the earth; every seedling withers. The farmer looks upward — the fierce sun is like molten bronze.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's rains withheld. The original verse describes sitting upright through the day until dusk, making requests that go unanswered. Moisture and grace refuse to descend; governance becomes perverse and the people suffer disorder. This is a drought of both water and virtue — the ruler's attention never reaches the populace, and supplication avails nothing. The image of patient, futile waiting recalls courtiers denied audience. From Peace to The Clinging, doubled fire burns without relief. The transformation exposes the danger: when heaven and earth cease their exchange, what remains is scorching illumination without nourishment — clarity that parches rather than sustains.
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