Hexagram:Holding Together →Hexagram:The Clinging
I-Ching Transformation
8
Holding Together
Bi
Water / Earth
→
30
The Clinging
Li
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1: 有孚比之無咎有孚盈缶終來有他吉
有yǒuhave
孚fútrue
比bǐin belonging
之zhīthis
無wúno
咎jiùerror
有yǒubeing
孚fútrue
盈yíngreplenishes
缶fǒuthis earthen
終zhōngthis end
來láiwill come
有yǒuholding
他tāadditional
吉jípromise
Line 3: 比之匪人
比bǐbelong
之zhīthis
匪fěian inferior
人rénpeople
Line 4: 外比之貞吉
外wàioutward
比bǐbelong
之zhīthis
貞zhēnpersistence
吉jípromising
Line 5: 顯比王用三驅失前禽邑人不誡吉
顯xiǎnevident
比bǐbelonging
王wángthe sovereign
用yòngemploys
三sānonly three
驅qūmounted game flushers
失shīforgoing
前qiánthe leading
禽qínof the quarry
邑yìhis town's
人rénpeople
不bùare not
誡jiècoerced
吉jípromising
Line 6: 比之無首凶
比bǐjoining with
之zhīthis
無wúwithout
首shǒupriorities
凶xiōngunfortunate
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater →Fireyin-yang reversal
Lower TrigramEarth →Firereceptive to clinging
Yilin Verse
比目四翼，來安我國。福善上堂，與我同床。
The paired-eye fish with four wings, come to bring peace to our land. Fortune and goodness ascend the hall; sharing my bed.
— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE
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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 8 (Holding Together) to hexagram 30 (The Clinging). In the I-Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.