Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Lower TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep

Yilin Verse

飛文污身,為邪所牽,青蠅分白,貞孝放逐。

Slander stains the person; dragged along by wickedness. Blue-bottle flies confound the white; the loyal and filial are banished.

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

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