復 → 旅
Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
Line 3
六三 頻復。厲。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Repeated return. Danger. No blame.
Line 6
上六 迷復。凶。有災眚。用行師。終有大敗。以其國君凶。至于十年不克征。
Six at the top means: Missing the return. Misfortune. Misfortune from within and without. If armies are set marching in this way, One will in the end suffer a great defeat, Disastrous for the ruler of the country. For ten years It will not be possible to attack again.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
二人輦車，徙去其家。井沸釜鳴，不可以居。
Two men pull a cart; moving away from their home. The well boils, the pot cries out; one cannot remain here.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder returns beneath the earth, but the house is already lost. Two people pull a handcart, hauling their possessions away from home. The well boils and the cooking pot roars — ominous signs that the dwelling itself has become uninhabitable, as if the earth beneath it is in revolt. In Chinese omen lore, a well that suddenly boils or a pot that hums without fire signals imminent disaster or the need to flee. From Return to The Wanderer, fire upon the mountain, the traveler passing through without settling. The transformation makes the displacement permanent: what began as flight from a haunted house becomes the wanderer's life. Home is not destroyed — it has become hostile, and the only return possible is to keep moving.
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