Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 10: Treading

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative
Lower TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

出令不勝,反為大災,強不克弱,君受其憂。

Issuing commands that cannot prevail; turning instead to great calamity. The strong cannot subdue the weak; the lord receives the sorrow.

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

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