離 → 訟
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三女為姦，俱遊高園。倍室夜行，與伯笑言。不忍主母，為設歡酒，冤尤誰禱。
Three women conspire in mischief, together roaming the high garden. Leaving the house by night, exchanging laughter with the elder. Unable to face the mistress, they set out wine of appeasement; to whom shall the wronged one pray?
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets heaven and water moving apart: brilliance entangles with conflict. Three women conspire, roaming together through a high garden. They slip from the household at night and exchange laughter with the elder brother. Unable to endure the mistress of the house, they prepare a banquet of poisoned wine; to whom can the wronged one pray? The verse depicts a classic scenario of concubines plotting against the principal wife, a recurring motif in Spring and Autumn court intrigues. From The Clinging to Conflict, fire's clarity splits into opposing currents. When illumination serves scheming rather than truth, the household becomes a battlefield where resentment ferments behind smiling faces and justice finds no arbiter.
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