離 → 頤
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
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
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
Commentary
Doubled fire meets the mountain above thunder: brilliance illuminates a realm where nourishment has been perverted. Birds startle, foxes scatter, and the wild goose flees; the state is in turmoil, never at peace. Those above are weak while those below are strong, and the ruler is punished by yin forces. The verse paints a landscape of inverted hierarchy: predators scatter like prey, the sovereign cowers before his ministers, and the feminine principle subjugates the masculine. From The Clinging to Nourishment, fire's clarity reveals the mountain over thunder — an open mouth that should receive sustenance. Yet when the strong occupy the lower position and the weak sit above, nourishment becomes poisonous, and the realm starves even as it feeds on its own disorder.
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