離 → 兌
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 黃離。元吉。
Six in the second place means: Yellow light. Supreme good fortune.
Line 3
九三 日昃之離。不鼓缶而歌。則大耋之嗟。凶。
Nine in the third place means: In the light of the setting sun, Men either beat the pot and sing Or loudly bewail the approach of old age. Misfortune.
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.
Line 6
上九 王用出征。有嘉。折首。獲匪其醜。无咎。
Nine at the top means: The king uses him to march forth and chastise. Then it is best to kill the leaders And take captive the followers. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
金玉滿室，忠直乘危，三老凍餓，鬼奪其室，求魚河海，網舉必得。
Gold and jade fill the chamber; the loyal and upright ride upon danger. Three elders starve and freeze; ghosts seize their dwelling. Casting nets in river and sea; every haul surely catches.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets the doubled lake: brilliance meets open expression in all its contradictions. Gold and jade fill the chamber, yet the loyal and upright ride into danger. Three elders freeze and starve while ghosts seize their dwelling. One casts nets in the river and sea, and every haul brings a catch. The verse is a rapid montage of extremes: wealth beside destitution, loyalty beside peril, ghostly dispossession beside abundant harvest. From The Clinging to The Joyous, fire's clarifying light meets the lake's open joy. The doubled lake reflects everything without discrimination — fortune and misfortune alike ripple across its surface. The verse refuses to resolve its contradictions, presenting instead the full spectrum of human experience as the joyous lake reflects it: gleaming gold, frozen elders, and brimming nets all coexist in a single moment of unfiltered reality.
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