Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

嬴氏違良,使孟尋兵。師老不已,敗於齊卿。

The house of Ying acted against the good, sending Meng to raise troops. The army aged without ceasing; defeated by the minister of Qi.

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

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