訟 → 離
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).
Line 1
初六 不永所事。小有言。終吉。
Six at the beginning means: If one does not perpetuate the affair, There is a little gossip. In the end, good fortune comes.
Line 2
九二 不克訟。歸而逋其邑。人三百戶。无眚。
Nine in the second place means: One cannot engage in conflict; One returns home, gives way. The people of his town, Three hundred households, Remain free of guilt.
Line 3
六三 食舊德。貞。厲終吉。或從王事。无成。
Six in the third place means: To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance. Danger. In the end, good fortune comes. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works.
Line 5
九五 訟。元吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: To contend before him Brings supreme good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
西徙無家，破其新車。王孫失利，不如止居。
Moving west with no home, the new cart broken. The prince loses his advantage; better to have stayed put.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, and a household uproots itself westward only to find no shelter waiting. The new carriage breaks apart on the road. The young nobleman suffers losses, and the verse concludes: better to have stayed put. From Conflict to The Clinging, fire doubles upon fire — brilliant illumination, but also exposure. Li's clarity reveals what the traveler should have seen before departing: movement without a destination is not progress but dispossession. The broken carriage is the Clinging's harsh light falling on a reckless decision. Fire illuminates but does not shelter. When conflict drives impulsive flight, one trades a flawed home for the open road's merciless clarity.
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