Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Approach
Earth / Lake
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

臨溪蟠枝,雖恐不危,樂以笑歌。

Leaning over the creek on a winding branch; though one fears, there is no danger -- delighting in song and laughter.

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

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