蠱 → 旅
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).
Line 1
初六 幹父之蠱。有子。考无咎。厲終吉。
Six in the beginning means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. If there is a son, No blame rests upon the departed father. Danger. In the end good fortune.
Line 2
九二 幹母之蠱。不可貞。
Nine in the second place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother. One must not be too persevering.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
南山黃竹，三身六目。出入制命，東皇宣政。主尊君安，鄭國無患。
Golden bamboo on the southern mountain; three bodies, six eyes. Commanding the rhythm of life and death -- the Eastern Sovereign proclaims his governance. The lord is honored, the ruler at peace; the state of Zheng knows no calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain invokes divine authority, and the transformation rises as fire upon the mountain — the Wanderer's vigilant passage through strange lands. Yellow bamboo grows on the southern mountain; a creature with three bodies and six eyes appears. Going out and coming in, it commands fate. The Eastern Sovereign proclaims governance; the lord is honored and the ruler secure; the state of Zheng has no troubles. The three-bodied, six-eyed being evokes the Shanhaijing's mythological guardians, while the Eastern Sovereign suggests the supreme celestial deity. From Work on the Decayed to the Wanderer, divine order is invoked to stabilize a transient situation. Fire upon the mountain — the traveler's beacon — demands clarity and just punishment to maintain order far from home.
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