Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire Fire
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

缺破不成,胎卵不生,不見其形。

Broken and incomplete; egg and embryo do not come to life. Their form is never seen.

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

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