Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Line 1

初六 進退。利武人之貞。

jìnadvance
退tuìand retreat
meriting
the military
rénone
zhī's
zhēnpersistence

Six at the beginning means: In advancing and in retreating, The perseverance of a warrior furthers.

Line 2

九二 巽在牀下。用史巫。紛若。吉。无咎。

xùnencroach(ment)
zàioccur
chuángthe bed
xiàunder
yòngemploy
shǐscribes
and diviners
fēnan assortment
ruòof such
promising
no
jiùblame(worthy)

Nine in the second place means: Penetration under the bed. Priests and magicians are used in great number. Good fortune. No blame.

Line 4

六四 悔亡。田獲三品。

huǐregret(s)
wángpass
tiánin the field
huòtake
sānthree
pǐnkind

Six in the fourth place means: Remorse vanishes. During the hunt Three kinds of game are caught.

Line 5

九五 貞吉悔亡。无不利。无初有終。先庚三日。後庚三日。吉。

zhēnpersistence
is promising
huǐregret(s)
wángpass
without
doubt
worthwhile
without
chūthe beginning
yǒuthere is
zhōngan conclusion
xiānbefore
gēngreform
sānthree
days
hòuafter
gēngreform
sānthree
days
promising

Nine in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes. Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end. Before the change, three days. After the change, three days. Good fortune.

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

隱隱大雷,霶霈為雨。有女癡狂,驚駭鄰里。

Rolling thunder rumbles deep; torrents of rain pour down. A woman seized by madness; startles and alarms the village.

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

Commentary

Wind upon wind transforms into doubled fire: the Gentle becomes The Clinging. Rolling thunder rumbles in the distance as torrential rain pours down. A woman seized by madness alarms the entire neighborhood. The verse links cosmic disturbance to human derangement — the storm outside mirrors the storm within. The woman's frenzy is not malicious but uncontrolled, a force that spreads fear through its very unpredictability. From The Gentle to The Clinging, doubled fire should mean clarity illuminating in all directions. But here the brilliance is fevered: fire burning too intensely becomes delirium rather than enlightenment. Wind fed fire beyond measure, and what should be lucid vision ignites as mania. Illumination pushed past its limit becomes its own form of darkness.

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