Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

Treading
Heaven / Lake
The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

烏子鵲雛,常與母居;願慕群侶,不離其巢。

Crow chicks and magpie nestlings, ever dwelling with their mother. Yearning for flock and companions; they do not leave the nest.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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