坤 → 旅
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Line 3
六三 含章可貞。或從王事。无成有終。
Six in the third place means: Hidden lines. One is able to remain persevering. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works, but bring to completion.
Line 4
六四 括囊。无咎无譽。
Six in the fourth place means: A tied-up sack. No blame, no praise.
Line 6
上六 龍戰于野。其血玄黃。
Six at the top means: Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow.
Trigram Changes
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
Commentary
Earth upon earth transforms into fire above mountain — the Wanderer. Vapors rise thick and lush, gathering together in abundance. Moisture descends from above, flowing in heavy, soaking rain. Fire atop the mountain, the image of Lu, shows a blaze on the heights — transient, exposed, moving on. Yet the verse evokes not wandering but condensation: mist coalescing, fluids accumulating, rain pouring down. From the Receptive to the Wanderer, the earth's moisture is drawn upward and then released, traveling across the sky before falling far from where it rose. The verse captures the Wanderer's paradox: the water cycle is perpetual motion — nothing stays, nothing is lost. What departs from the earth returns to the earth, but always to a different place.
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