The Clinging Fire

Clarity and clinging. Light depends on what it rests on; choose what you attach yourself to with care.

• 初九 · Line 1
  履錯然，敬之无咎。
  The first NINE, undivided, shows one ready to move with confused steps. But he treads at the same time reverently, and there will be no mistake.
  象曰：履錯之敬，以辟咎也。
• 六二 · Line 2
  黃離，元吉。
  The second SIX, divided, shows its subject in his place in yellow. There will be great good fortune.
  象曰：黃離元吉，得中道也。
• 九三 · Line 3
  日昃之離，不鼓缶而歌，則大耋之差，凶。
  The third NINE, undivided, shows its subject 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.
  象曰：日昃之離，何可久也。
• 九四 · Line 4
  突如其來如，焚如，死如，棄如。
  The fourth NINE, undivided, shows the manner of its subject's coming. How abrupt it is, as with fire, with death, to be rejected (by all)!
  象曰：突如其來如，无所容也。
• 六五 · Line 5
  出涕沱若，戚嗟若，吉。
  The fifth SIX, divided, shows its subject as one with tears flowing in torrents, and groaning in sorrow. There will be good fortune.
  象曰：六五之吉，離王公也。
• 上九 · Line 6
  王用出征，有嘉折首，獲匪其醜，无咎。
  The topmost NINE, undivided, shows the king employing its subject 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.
  象曰：王用出征，以正邦也。