Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

The Receptive
Earth / Earth
The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

潼滃蔚薈,扶首來會。津液來降,流淹滂霈。

Thick and billowing, lush and dense; gathering with heads bowed. Moisture descends from above; flowing, drenching, soaking in abundance.

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

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