Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

翕翕𨋮𨋮,稍稍崩顛;滅其令名,長沒不存。

Rattling and crumbling, gradually collapsing from the peak. The fine name is extinguished; it sinks away, never to endure.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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