Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

鳥驚狐鴻,國亂不寧,上弱下強,為陰所刑。

Birds startled, foxes and geese in flight; the state is in turmoil, without peace. The higher is weak, the lower is strong; punished by the forces of shadow.

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

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