30 / 45 The Clinging, Fire
Guiding
(64->30->63->29)

"LI : glowing light, spreading in all directions; light-giving, discriminating, articulating; divide and arrange in order; the power of consciousness. The ideogram: bird and weird, the magical fire-bird with brilliant plumage."ERANOS p353

Image :

"[With guidance comes (a sense of) direction/directing]
Brightness doubled generates radiance.
One uses continuous brightness (guidance) to illuminate (become aware of) the direction of the four point of the compass."

Commentary

The idea of 30 is given in the cycle, (64->30->63->29), where a failure to complete(64) implies the need for a guide (30). Once found, completion is successful (63). But once successful the guiding principles become taught by rote (29) and thus we get back to failure (64). (failure is more 'mis-sequencing' than 'failing'). Contextually, we emerge in a state of over emphasizing (62 - acting/portraying) and this develops into the ability to stripping things away, revealing the underneath (49) - and thus the shining light of the intellect as a guide and developer of direction. As the comment on line 6 shows, we can happily chop-off the head in this process of analysis and revealing 'truth'.

(All four hexagrams (29,30,63,64) deal with the concept of protection and getting things in correct order, either with the defensive contractive bias of 29 or the expansive use of guidance in 30. This correlates with the concept of bounding(making distinctions) manifest in the base trigrams; as you follow a path a map is useful.).

Hexagram 30 is the general form of hexagram 08

The Traditional Single Changing Line Comments:

Line 1

"One has a tendency to gloss-up the path that one follows [especially if new to it.] This enhances one's attitude towards it (another gloss-up). No harm in this."

Line 2

"One is the source of radiating power. Advantageous."

Line 3

"The setting of the Sun[The end of the road/path. The light going out.]. No celebration, just a very old man lamenting the past. Unfortunate."

Line 4

"Attacking the senses, One flares up too quickly, burns too brightly, dies too suddenly, and is quickly forgotten. [One needs to slow down avoid excess.]."

Line 5

"One has reached a zenith. The change of life. A change of path. Advantageous."

Line 6

"From a position of strength, one enforces discipline through removing the head. Once done there is no need for the body. No harm in this."

Extended Commentary

The raw context from which the situation derives is described by hexgram 62 portraying/small exceeding. It passes through hexagram 49 Un-Masking before reaching here.

Transformative methods

By introducing this hexagram as context, you can change a state described by any other hexagram into a state described by hexagram 55. To make a state associated with another hexagram transform into this state, introduce hexagram 55 as context.

It is important to remember that, when using transformative methods, the more lines requiring change, the more energy required when attempting to introduce a different context. It may therefore be of benefit to work on existing changing lines and achieve your goal in steps rather than attempt, for example, a six-line change all at once.

Further IC+ extensions