Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Progress
Fire / Earth
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire Fire
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

雖污不辱,因何洗足,童子褰衣,五年平復。

Though soiled, not disgraced; why then wash the feet? The child lifts his robe; in five years, all is restored.

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

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