坤 → 離
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 履霜堅冰至。
Six at the beginning means: When there is hoarfrost underfoot, Solid ice is not far off.
Line 3
六三 含章可貞。或從王事。无成有終。
Six in the third place means: Hidden lines. One is able to remain persevering. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works, but bring to completion.
Line 4
六四 括囊。无咎无譽。
Six in the fourth place means: A tied-up sack. No blame, no praise.
Line 6
上六 龍戰于野。其血玄黃。
Six at the top means: Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
齊魯爭言，戰於龍門。搆怨連禍，三世不安。
Qi and Lu quarrel and contend; battle at Dragon Gate. Building grudges, linking calamities; three generations without peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth upon earth transforms into doubled fire — the Clinging. Qi and Lu quarrel bitterly and clash at Dragon Gate. Grudges compound into linked disasters; three generations know no peace. Dragon Gate (Longmen), the gorge on the Yellow River carved by Yu the Great, serves here as a battleground where two states entangle themselves in vendetta. Doubled fire, the image of Li, represents brightness upon brightness — clarity that can also mean exposure and burning. From the Receptive to the Clinging, the earth's stable ground is scorched by relentless conflict. Fire attached to fire feeds itself endlessly, just as grudges breed new grudges across generations. The verse warns: when contention is kindled and neither side relents, the flame becomes self-perpetuating.
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