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Hexagram 30 / 64 · Awareness

Hexagram 30The Clinging Fire

Attend to what keeps your light alive.

/ Li
UPPER: FIRE
LOWER: FIRE

A modern reflection

A way to look at this moment.

Clarity depends on conditions: information, relationships, rest, and a place to direct your attention. Rather than expecting insight to sustain itself, care for those supports. Notice both what illuminates a situation and what captures your attention without helping.

Sit with this question

What is your attention attached to right now?

One small practice.

Choose one source of clarity and give it your undivided attention.

The image & the structure.

This hexagram places fire above fire. The lower trigram evokes light and clarity; the upper trigram evokes light and clarity. Consider these as images to explore rather than instructions to follow.

The six lines are read from the bottom upward. A solid line is yang; a broken line is yin. In a coin reading, some lines may change and form a relating hexagram. A hexagram on its own does not specify which lines are changing.

Learn about changing lines →
This page contains original modern reflections, not a translation of the I Ching’s Judgment, Image, or individual line texts. Names vary between translations. About our sources and approach.