Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Development
Wind / Mountain
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind FireThe Gentle → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

剛柔相呼,二姓為家。霜降既同,惠我以仁。

Two paulownia trees stand side by side, branches and leaves intertwined. Autumn frost whitens them both equally; their root systems run to the same depth.

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

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