Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

The Well
Water / Wind
The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWind FireThe Gentle → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

自衛歸魯,時不我與。冰炭異室,仁道隔塞。

Returning from Wei to Lu; the times do not favor me. Ice and charcoal in separate chambers; the way of benevolence is blocked and severed.

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

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