離 → 泰
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 黃離。元吉。
Six in the second place means: Yellow light. Supreme good fortune.
Line 4
九四 突如其來如。焚如。死如。棄如。
Nine in the fourth place means: Its coming is sudden; It flames up, dies down, is thrown away.
Line 6
上九 王用出征。有嘉。折首。獲匪其醜。无咎。
Nine at the top means: The king uses him to march forth and chastise. Then it is best to kill the leaders And take captive the followers. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
奔牛相錯，敗亂緒業，民不得作。
Stampeding oxen gore each other; defeating and ruining every enterprise. The people cannot go about their work.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets heaven and earth in exchange: brilliance erupts into the chaos of a stampede. Stampeding oxen collide and tangle, ruining established enterprises, and the people cannot carry on their work. The image of panicked cattle crashing into one another suggests a sudden breakdown of order at the moment when harmony should prevail. Tai, the hexagram of Peace, represents heaven and earth communicating perfectly; yet the verse shows that very exchange perverted into violent collision. From The Clinging to Peace, fire's intensity overwhelms the delicate balance of cosmic interchange. When energy that should circulate gently instead erupts in panic, even the most auspicious configuration collapses, and the common people suffer the consequences of forces beyond their control.
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