離 → 巽
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 履錯然。敬之。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: The footprints run crisscross. If one is seriously intent, no blame.
Line 2
六二 黃離。元吉。
Six in the second place means: Yellow light. Supreme good fortune.
Line 4
九四 突如其來如。焚如。死如。棄如。
Nine in the fourth place means: Its coming is sudden; It flames up, dies down, is thrown away.
Line 5
六五 出涕沱若。戚嗟若。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Tears in floods, sighing and lamenting. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
交亂當道，民困愁苦，望羊置群，長子在門。
Turmoil blocks the road; the people are distressed and suffering. Gazing at the sheep, setting them among the flock; the eldest son stands at the gate.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets doubled wind: brilliance dissolves into pervasive but scattered influence. Turmoil and disorder block the road; the people are exhausted and distressed. One gazes at the scattered flock of sheep and sets them in order; the eldest son stands at the gate. The verse juxtaposes chaos with the beginnings of restoration. The road is blocked, the people suffer, yet someone takes charge of the scattered flock. The 'eldest son at the gate' suggests legitimate authority preparing to reassert itself. From The Clinging to The Gentle, fire's concentrated brightness enters the doubled wind that penetrates everywhere but concentrates nowhere. The wind's power lies in repetition and subtlety, not force. The verse shows recovery beginning not with dramatic intervention but with the quiet, persistent act of gathering what has scattered.
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