Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 15: Modesty

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

壅遏隄防,水不得行,火盛陽光,陰蜺伏藏,走婦其歸。

Dikes and dams obstruct and block; water cannot flow. Fire blazes with yang's radiance; the shadowed rainbow hides away. The fleeing woman returns home.

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

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