臨 → 旅
Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
九二 咸臨吉。无不利。
Nine in the second place means: Joint approach. Good fortune. Everything furthers.
Line 3
六三 甘臨。无攸利。既憂之。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Comfortable approach. Nothing that would further. If one is induced to grieve over it, One becomes free of blame.
Line 6
上六 敦臨。吉。无咎。
Six at the top means: Greathearted approach. Good fortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天所祚昌，文以為良；篤生武王，姬受其福。
What heaven bestows its flourishing upon, with Wen deemed most worthy; mightily it bore King Wu -- the house of Ji received its blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above the lake encounters fire upon the mountain — the Wanderer's transient brilliance. Heaven bestows its mandate of prosperity; King Wen serves as the foundation of goodness. From him is born King Wu in splendid vigor, and the Ji clan receives its blessing. The verse celebrates the Zhou succession: Heaven's favor first descends on Wen, whose accumulated virtue then produces Wu, the warrior who completes the mandate. The Ji surname — Zhou's royal clan — inherits the cosmic endorsement. From Approach to the Wanderer, the paradox is that Zhou's enduring dynasty is framed through the Wanderer's transience: even the mightiest mandate is a sojourn, brilliant but finite, like fire flaring upon a mountain before moving on.
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