Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Following
Lake / Thunder
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

不勝私情,以利自嬰;北室出孤,毀其良家。

Unable to master private passions, entangled in self-interest; from the northern chamber an orphan emerges -- the good household is destroyed.

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

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