解 → 旅
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
Line 2
九二 田獲三狐。得黃矢。貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: One kills three foxes in the field And receives a yellow arrow. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 3
六三 負且乘。致寇至。貞吝。
Six in the third place means: If a man carries a burden on his back And nonetheless rides in a carriage, He thereby encourages robbers to draw near. Perseverance leads to humiliation.
Line 4
九四 解而拇。朋至斯孚。
Nine in the fourth place means: Deliver yourself from your great toe. Then the companion comes, And him you can trust.
Line 6
上六 公用射隼于高墉之上。獲之无不利。
Six at the top means: The prince shoots at a hawk on a high wall. He kills it. Everything serves to further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
季世多憂，亂國淫遊。殃禍立至，民無以休。
In these last days, much sorrow; the disordered state wallows in reckless pleasure. Calamity and disaster arrive at once; the people have no rest.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water scatters into fire upon the mountain — the restless displacement of the Wanderer. In the final age, worries multiply; the disordered state indulges in dissipation. Calamity arrives at once, and the people find no rest. The verse reads like a historical diagnosis: a late-period kingdom dissolving in excess and misrule, disaster following as a natural consequence. From Deliverance to The Wanderer, the freed populace becomes a displaced populace — not liberated but uprooted. Fire on the mountain burns and moves on, never settling. The wanderer's clarity of judgment serves no purpose when the state itself has become the disaster from which there is no shelter.
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