Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 33: Retreat

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

三貍搏鼠,遮遏前後,無於圜域,不得脫走。

Three wildcats hunt the mouse; blocking and trapping front and rear. Within the walled enclosure; it cannot escape and flee.

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

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