Hexagram 33: Retreat → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

折亡破甕,使我困貧,與母生分,別離異門。

The jar breaks, the vessel shatters; leaving me in poverty. Parted from my mother by fate; separated, through different doors.

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

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