Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 53: Development

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

五嶽四瀆,地得以安,高而不危,敬慎避患。

Five sacred peaks and four great rivers; the earth is thereby made secure. Lofty yet not imperiled; reverent and cautious, avoiding calamity.

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

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