Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

苛政日作,螟食華葉,割下啖上,民被其賊,秋無所得。

Harsh governance grows daily; locusts devour blossoms and leaves. Cutting from below to feed above; the people suffer the plunder. In autumn, nothing is gained.

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

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