Hexagram 30 · line 4
The Clinging (Fire)
離Lí
It comes suddenly, blazes, dies, and is cast aside.
Line statement
九四
突如其來如，焚如，死如，棄如。
It comes suddenly, blazes, dies, and is cast aside.
Line 4 begins the outer Fire with a blaze that arrives and dies at once. Its change makes Mountain above Fire, Hexagram 22, where brightness is contained by visible form.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes