The Book of Changes · Li

Hexagram 30: The Clinging

Fire (flame and the sun) over Fire (flame and the sun)

Fire doubled: brightness, and the fact that it depends on what it burns. Clarity here is real and it is not self-sustaining, which is the whole difficulty of the figure.

The image

Brightness rising twice. The reading is that a great person, by continuing the light, illuminates the four quarters, and that this is a practice rather than a possession.

Fire, above

Clarity, attachment, and what depends on its fuel.

Fire, below

Clarity, attachment, and what depends on its fuel.

The six lines

Read from the bottom up.

1. Line 1The footprints cross each other at the start of the day. Compose yourself first.
2. Line 2Yellow light: the colour of the middle. The best line in the figure.
3. Line 3The sun going down, and people either sing or complain about being old. Which you do is the reading.
4. Line 4It flares, burns out, and is thrown away. Brightness with nothing under it.
5. Line 5Weeping and lamenting, and good fortune in it. Grief let out rather than held.
6. Line 6Deal with what caused it and let the rest go. The leaders are taken, not the followers.

The same figure in Human Design

Human Design took its sixty four gates from this book, in this numbering, so hexagram 30 is Gate 30, Feelings.