Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

抱關傳語,聾跛摧殆。眾賤無下,災殃所在。

Guarding the gate, passing messages; deaf and lame, broken and spent. The multitude is humble, with none below them; disaster and calamity find their mark.

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

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