離 → 小過
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
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 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
黃裳建元，文德在身，祿祐洋溢，封為齊君，賈市無門，股肱多根。
Yellow lower garment, founding the era; cultured virtue upon his person. Blessings and fortune overflow; enfeoffed as lord of Qi. The marketplace has no gates; limbs and supports are many and firm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets thunder above the mountain: brilliance adorns itself with humble excess. The yellow lower garment establishes the epoch; refined virtue resides in one's person. Blessings and favor overflow, and one is enfeoffed as Lord of Qi. Yet the merchant's market has no gate, and the limbs have many roots entangling them. 'Huang chang' (yellow lower garment) alludes to the I-Ching's Kun hexagram, line six-five: 'A yellow lower garment — supremely auspicious,' symbolizing humble virtue in a position of influence. The enfeoffment of Qi recalls Taigong's reward after the Zhou conquest. From The Clinging to Small Exceeding, fire's brilliance accepts the thunder's counsel to exceed in humility rather than grandeur. True excess lies in being excessively reverent, excessively frugal — the small virtues that sustain power longer than grand gestures.
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