Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

陰生麇鹿,鼠舞鬼哭。靈龜陸蒙,釜甑草土。仁智盤桓,國亂無緒。

In the yin, deer are born; rats dance, ghosts wail. The sacred tortoise is stranded on land; cauldrons and steamers fill with weeds and earth. The wise and humane hesitate; the state is in chaos, without order.

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

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