離 → 益
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 42: Increase
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
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.
Line 5
六五 出涕沱若。戚嗟若。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Tears in floods, sighing and lamenting. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
泉起崑崙，東出玉門，流為九河，無有憂患。
Springs arise from Kunlun; flowing east through the Jade Gate. Branching into the Nine Rivers; free from worry and trouble.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets wind and thunder together: brilliance flows outward in generous increase. Springs rise at Kunlun, flow eastward through the Jade Gate, and branch into the Nine Rivers, bringing no calamity. The verse traces the mythological course of the Yellow River from its legendary source at Mount Kunlun through the Jade Gate Pass and into the nine channels that irrigate the Central Plains. This is pure beneficence: water flowing from the highest source to nourish the widest territory. From The Clinging to Increase, fire's radiance joins wind and thunder in a vision of boundless expansion. The transformation shows that true increase begins at the source and flows downward by natural law, unstoppable and beneficial to all it touches.
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