30. 
Li
      
Clinging Brightness.

Upper Trigram: Li; Clinging Brightness, Fire.
Lower Trigram: Li; Clinging Brightness, Fire.

Governing Rulers: Six in the second place.
                                    Six in the fifth place.
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The Image:
Brightness clinging to brightness: the image of Li.
The superior man, in accordance with this, cultivates more and more his brilliant virtue, and diffuses its brightness over the four quarters of the world.
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Miscellaneous Signs:                       (9, 10, 29, 55, 56)
Fire mounts in Li; water in K'an descends.
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The Judgement:
Li indicates that, in regard to what it denotes, it will be advantageous to be firm and correct, and that thus there will be free course and success.
Let its subject also nourish a docility like that of the cow, and there will be good fortune.
See also Ta Chuan, section II, chapter II, §2.

Commentary:
Li means 'being attached to'. The sun and moon have their place in the sky. All the grains, grass and trees have their place on the earth. The double brightness adheres to what is correct, and the result is transforming and perfecting all under the sky.
The weak second line is the dominant ruler, and occupies the central and correct position, giving the indication of 'a free and successful course'; therefore 'nourishing docility (like that of the cow)' will lead to good fortune.
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The Lines:

Nine in the bottom place:
Showing one ready to move with confused steps. But he treads at the same time reverently, and there will be no mistake.
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Six in the second place:
 O
Showing its subject in his place in yellow.
There will be great good fortune.
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Nine in the third place:
Showing its subject like a setting sun. Instead of playing on his instrument of earthenware, and singing to it, he utters the groans of an old man of eighty. There will be evil.
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Nine in the fourth place:
Showing the manner of its subject's coming. How abrupt it is, as with fire, with death, to be rejected.
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Six in the fifth place:
 O
Showing its subject with tears flowing in torrents, and groaning in sorrow. There will be good fortune.
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Top-most nine:
The king employs its subject in his punitive expeditions. Achieving admirable merit, he breaks only the chiefs of the rebels. Where his prisoners were not their associates, he does not punish.
There will be no error.
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Commentaries:

Nine in the bottom place:
The 'reverent attention directed to his confused steps', is the way by which error is avoided.
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Six in the second place:
The 'great good fortune, occupying his place in yellow', is owing to his holding the course of the due mean.
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Nine in the third place:
'A position like that of a setting sun': how can it continue long?
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Nine in the fourth place:
'How abrupt is the manner of his coming!': none can bear him.
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Six in the fifth place:
The good fortune attached to this weak line is due to its occupying the place of a king or prince.
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Top-most nine:
'The king employs him in his punitive expeditions': the object being to bring the regions to a correct state.
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