Hexagram 49: Revolution → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramFire Fire

Yilin Verse

石門晨開,荷蕢疾貧。遁世隱居,竟不逢時。

The stone gate opens at dawn; bearing a basket, sick with poverty. Withdrawing from the world to live in hiding, in the end never meeting one's time.

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

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