頤 → 離
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
Line 3
六三 拂頤。貞凶。十年勿用。无攸利。
Six in the third place means: Turning away from nourishment. Perseverance brings misfortune. Do not act thus for ten years. Nothing serves to further.
Line 4
六四 顛頤。吉。虎視眈眈。其欲逐逐。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Turning to the summit For provision of nourishment Brings good fortune. Spying about with sharp eyes Like a tiger with insatiable craving. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
一指食肉，口無所得。染其鼎鼐，舌饞於腹。
Across the bank, peach blossoms burn red; at the crossing there is no boat, water stretches to the sky. Thinking of plums to quench thirst only deepens the thirst — painting a cake to ease hunger makes the belly burn more.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder transforms into doubled fire — the Clinging, brightness upon brightness. The original verse reads: pointing at meat with one finger, the mouth obtains nothing. Dyeing the great cauldron's contents, the tongue craves what the belly cannot have. This is nourishment tantalizingly close yet utterly unreachable — food visible but not edible, flavor imagined but not tasted. The cauldron is stained but yields nothing to the hungry. From Nourishment to the Clinging, the transformation illuminates desire itself: doubled fire shows everything with painful clarity, yet fire cannot be eaten. The brighter the vision of what one lacks, the sharper the hunger. Clarity without sustenance is its own torment.
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