The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 30
What does I Ching hexagram 30, Bright Fire, mean?
離Fire 離 above
Fire 離 below
Hexagram 30 of the I Ching is Bright Fire (離), Fire doubled. Its judgment opens “Bright fire: it pays to hold firm.”
The judgment
離：利貞。亨。畜牝牛，吉。Bright fire: it pays to hold firm. Success. Raising a cow brings good fortune.Zhou Yi 周易, 離, judgment. Source
The image
明兩作離，大人以繼明照于四方。Brightness rises twice. The great person carries on the light and shines it in all directions.Zhou Yi 周易, 離, image. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初九：履錯然，敬之无咎。
- Second line六二：黃離，元吉。
- Third line九三：日昃之離，不鼓缶而歌，則大耋之差，凶。
- Fourth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Fifth line六五：出涕沱若，戚嗟若，吉。
- Top line上九：王用出征，有嘉折首，獲匪其醜，无咎。
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