Six Doors · No. 30
第30卦 离 Lí · The Clinging
Essence: Fire lives by what it clings to; choose your fuel.
Judgment
Light cannot hang in the void: fire exists only by clinging to fuel, and your clarity works the same way—it must attach to something worth burning for. Choose your attachments well, and tend them with the docile persistence of a cow at pasture. Doubled brightness can illuminate everything around you, but first know what you are consuming in order to shine.
Trigrams
Upper
Lower
The lines
- Line 1In the crisscrossing footsteps of early morning, composure at the very first step keeps the whole day clear.
- Line 2Yellow light: neither glaring nor dim, brightness held exactly at center—the best of all conditions.
- Line 3The light of the setting sun: at the natural end of a phase, either sing along with it or waste it lamenting your age—there is no third option.
- Line 4Flaring up out of nowhere, blazing, dying, discarded: intensity without a base consumes itself in one display.
- Line 5Tears in floods and honest sighing—grief felt truly at the height of brilliance is what turns the position toward fortune.
- Line 6The king campaigns to break the ringleaders while sparing those merely swept along—clarity in judgment means knowing exactly where punishment stops.
All the doors
Every single-step transition available from where you stand.
- Line 156 旅 · The Wanderer
A guest everywhere; travel light and give no offense.
- Line 214 大有 · Great Possession
Great holdings; abundance ruled by clarity and grace.
- Line 321 噬嗑 · Biting Through
Bite through the obstruction; only then can the jaws close.
- Line 422 贲 · Grace
Grace adorns but never carries; end in plain white.
- Line 513 同人 · Fellowship
Fellowship in the open field, beyond the clan wall.
- Line 655 丰 · Abundance
Zenith reached; enjoy it knowing it turns.