頤 → 旅
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
Line 1
初九 舍爾靈龜。觀我朶頤。凶。
Nine at the beginning means: You let your magic tortoise go, And look at me with the corners of your mouth drooping. Misfortune.
Line 3
六三 拂頤。貞凶。十年勿用。无攸利。
Six in the third place means: Turning away from nourishment. Perseverance brings misfortune. Do not act thus for ten years. Nothing serves to further.
Line 4
六四 顛頤。吉。虎視眈眈。其欲逐逐。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Turning to the summit For provision of nourishment Brings good fortune. Spying about with sharp eyes Like a tiger with insatiable craving. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
載船逢火，憂不為禍。家在山東，入門見公。
The laden boat meets fire; worry does not become disaster. Home lies east of the mountains; entering the gate, one sees the master.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder shifts to fire above the mountain — the Wanderer, the traveler far from home. A boat laden with goods encounters fire — a terrifying omen on water — yet the worry does not become disaster. One's family lies east of the mountains, and upon entering the gate one meets the patriarch. The verse moves from maritime peril to homecoming: fire on a boat should mean catastrophe, but it passes. The real destination is the family home, reached through the mountain gate. From Nourishment to the Wanderer, the transformation sends nourishment abroad: fire on the mountain is the wanderer's signal, visible from afar. The one who survives danger on the journey finds nourishment not in the road's provisions but in the family waiting beyond the gate.
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