離 → 坤
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 6).
Line 1
初九 履錯然。敬之。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: The footprints run crisscross. If one is seriously intent, no blame.
Line 3
九三 日昃之離。不鼓缶而歌。則大耋之嗟。凶。
Nine in the third place means: In the light of the setting sun, Men either beat the pot and sing Or loudly bewail the approach of old age. Misfortune.
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
春秋禱祝，解過除憂，君子無咎。
Spring and autumn prayers and supplications; transgressions forgiven, sorrows removed. The noble man is without blame.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire descends into the receptive earth: illumination yields to quiet acceptance. Spring and autumn prayers and supplications dissolve misfortune and dispel worry; the noble person incurs no blame. The verse describes seasonal rites of purification, where offerings at the proper time align human action with heaven's rhythm. No specific historical allusion anchors the text; instead it presents the ritual calendar itself as medicine. From The Clinging to The Receptive, fire's restless clarity settles into earth's patient absorption. The gentleman who submits to the seasonal cycle, performing each rite in its proper order, finds that anxiety dissolves not through force but through devoted receptivity to the pattern of time.
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