Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 8: Holding Together

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Holding Together
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

松柏枝葉,常茂不落,君子惟體,日富安樂。

Pine and cypress, branches and leaves; ever flourishing, never falling. The noble man takes this as his model; daily growing wealthy and at ease.

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

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