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).
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.