Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 48: The Well

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

頭尾顛倒,不知緒處,君失其國。

Head and tail overturned; one cannot tell where the threads begin. The lord loses his kingdom.

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

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