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Cast the I Ching · Hexagram 30 of 64

Hexagram Thirty

The Clinging

Fire doubled: radiance that endures by holding to what feeds it.

Li: clear fire
Upper trigram · Li
Li: clear fire
Lower trigram · Li

Flame above flame — light in both places, the hexagram of luminous dependence. Fire has no form of its own; it persists by clinging to what nourishes it, and that is presented as wisdom rather than weakness. The counsel is conscious attachment: know what your brightness depends on — practices, people, sources — and hold to them with care. Brilliance that honours its fuel burns twice; brilliance that forgets it burns out.

On wealth

Identify what actually sustains your earning power and reinvest in that fuel before extending the flame.

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