Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Splitting Apart
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

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

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