Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative

Yilin Verse

命短不長,中年夭傷,鬼泣哭堂,哀其子亡。

Fate cut short, life not long; in middle years, untimely death. Ghosts weep and wail in the hall; mourning the child that is gone.

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

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