Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

Opposition
Fire / Lake
The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

響像无形,骨體不成。微行衰索,消滅無名。

Echoes and reflections without form; flesh and bone never take shape. Faint and declining, fading away; extinguished and nameless.

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

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