恆 → 離
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).
Line 1
初六 浚恆貞凶。无攸利。
Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Line 2
九二 悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Remorse disappears.
Line 6
上六 振恆凶。
Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
新田宜粟，上農得穀，君子推德，千百以福。
New fields are fit for millet; the best farmer reaps his grain. The noble man extends his virtue; blessings come a thousandfold, a hundredfold.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's reliable constancy, brightens into doubled fire — the Clinging's illuminating radiance. New fields are ideal for millet; the best farmers reap abundant grain. The gentleman extends his virtue, and blessings multiply a hundredfold, a thousandfold. The verse celebrates agricultural prosperity as the fruit of sustained moral cultivation. New fields suggest expansion into virgin territory — not reckless advance but methodical development. The 'superior farmer' who reaps most is the one whose technique endures through seasons. From Duration to the Clinging, the thunder-wind's steady energy ignites into doubled clarity. Virtue practiced consistently radiates outward like fire illuminating fire, and the harvest of sustained goodness compounds beyond all expectation.
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