Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

早霜晚雪,傷害禾麥,損功棄力,飢無所食。

Wildfire sweeps across the fields, ashes still warm. No green shoot remains — black earth without a trace.

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

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