Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

三日不飲,遠水无酒。晝夜焦喉,傷鬼為咎。

Three days without drink; water is far, there is no wine. Day and night his throat burns; harmed by ghosts, he bears this affliction.

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

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