Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

The Well
Water / Wind
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWind FireThe Gentle → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

高飛不視,貪叨所在。臭腐為患,自害躬身。

Flying high yet blind to what lies below; greed fixes upon what is there. Rot and stench become the ruin; he brings harm upon his own body.

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

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