離 → 家人

Commentary

Doubled fire meets wind issuing from fire: brilliance seeks household order but grasps only emptiness. Embracing the void and clutching at nothing, an owl startles the nestlings. Profit departs and does not return. The owl in classical Chinese poetry is an ill-omened bird that devours its own mother's young — the Shijing ode 'Chi Xiao' uses it as a metaphor for enemies threatening the Duke of Zhou's fledgling state. Here the owl disrupts the household, scattering the young while the parent grasps at air. From The Clinging to The Family, fire should nurture the wind that carries warmth outward. Yet when the household's inner fire produces only smoke and predators, the family disperses and prosperity vanishes, leaving hands clutching at what was never solid.