30. Li; The Clinging, Fire Above; Li the Clinging fire Below; Li the Clinging fire |
21st Century | Comparisons |
| A double sign hexagram. In this is embodied the spirit of
the earth. Fire clinging to a twig is in some ways a mirror of the way
life clings to the globe. Fire is one of the basic synergies. It draws from
matter the energy to throw out illumination. To transform and not consume
is the proper job of fire. Fire in the hands of a sentient person has
those transformative qualities.
Historically the trigrams represent the sun in the course of a day. A well ordered day has natural beneficial consequences. Wishes become manifest . But to have wasted a day with recriminations and regrets adds to the worries. Control requires discipline, which does not extinguish the fire within but channels and husbands it. Fire throws illumination implying clear mindedness. Acuity is achieved when a person is productive. Nay, more than productive, creative. That is they are radiant. |
Below are the comparative interpretations of a) Legge, b) Willhelm, c) Riefler, d) Crowley
a) One ready to move with confused steps. But he treads at the same time with reverently, and there will be no mistake.
b) The footprints run crisscross. If one seriously intent, no blame.
c) His steps are unsure but he moves with reverence. No mistakes.
d) Confused at heart? Let Reverence befriend.
a) in his place in yellow. There will be great good fortune.
b) Yellow light. Supreme good fortune.
c) Yellow. Very auspicious.
d) Here's fortune - rightly placed and clothed in yellow.
a) in a position like that of the declining sun. Instead of playing on his instrument of earthenware, and singing to it, he utters the groans of an old man of eighty. There will be evil.
b) In the light of the setting sun, Men either beat the bot and sing Or loudly bewail the approach of old age. Misfortune.
c) The setting sun. The old man should beat on his pot and sing. Instead he worries about death. Ominous.
d) Accept thine ills with cheer or worse attend.
a) the manner of its subjects coming. How abrupt it is, as with fire, with death, to be rejected (by all)!
b) Its coming is sudden; It flames up, dies down, is thrown away.
c) He comes, on fire, flares up, dies and is forgotten.
d) Abruptness - fie! Thus fire and death descend.
a) one with tears flowing in torrents, and groaning in sorrow. There will be good fortune.
b) Tears in floods, sighing and lamenting. Good fortune.
c) Tears flow in torrents. Lamentation. Auspicious.
d) Luck comes to aid thee, melancholy fellow!
a) the king employing its subjects in his punitive expeditions. Achieving admirable (merit), he breaks (only) the chiefs (of the rebels). Where his prisoners were not their associates, he does not punish. There will be no error.
b) The king uses him to march forth and chastise. Then it is best to kill the leaders And take captive the followers. No blame.
c) The man is sent as an agent of punishment. Wisely he crushes the chiefs. He humanely discriminates between the evil men and the good men who have been duped. No mistakes.
d) In victory, be just - a noble end.