Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Limitation
Water / Lake
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

商伯沉醉,庶兄奔走。淫女蕩夫,仁德並孤。

The merchant lord drowns in wine; his elder brother flees. A wanton woman, a dissolute man; benevolence and virtue both stand alone.

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

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