離 → 剝
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
戴堯扶禹，從喬彭祖，西過王母，道里夷易，無敢難者。
Bearing Yao, supporting Yu; following Qiao and Pengzu. Traveling west past the Queen Mother; the road is level and easy. None dare obstruct the way.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets the mountain resting upon earth: brilliance reveres the ancients to forestall collapse. One carries the legacy of Yao and supports the work of Yu, follows in the footsteps of the noble Pengzu. Journeying west past the Queen Mother of the West, the road is smooth and easy; none dare oppose the way. The verse assembles a pantheon of longevity and sagely protection: Yao the sage-king, Yu the flood-tamer, Pengzu the eight-hundred-year immortal, and the Queen Mother who guards the peaches of eternal life. From The Clinging to Splitting Apart, fire's illumination meets the image of a mountain slowly eroding upon the earth. To prevent the collapse of civilized order, one must invoke the deepest reserves of ancestral wisdom and transcendent protection.
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