升 → 旅

Commentary

Wood grows within the earth, but yin ascends while yang retreats into hiding, and the sage-king Shun loses his proper dwelling. Ornaments are displayed yet no one eats from the table; the nest feels as uncomfortable and hostile as a bed of thorns. Shun — the paragon of virtue displaced from his rightful place — embodies the cosmic disorder of yin and yang inverted: the worthy driven out, the unworthy enthroned. Fire over mountain, the image of the Wanderer, describes the traveler who finds no permanent home anywhere under heaven. From Pushing Upward to the Wanderer, the ascending impulse produces not arrival but perpetual displacement. What should have risen to stable height instead drifts, rootless, across an inhospitable landscape where no nest brings rest.