旅 → 泰
Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).
Line 2
六二 旅即次。懷其資。得童僕貞。
Six in the second place means: The wanderer comes to an inn. He has his property with him. He wins the steadfastness of a young servant.
Line 6
上九 鳥焚其巢。旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易。凶。
Nine at the top means: The bird's nest burns up. The wanderer laughs at first, Then must needs lament and weep. Through carelessness he loses his cow. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
延陵適魯，觀樂太史。車轔白顛，知秦興起。卒兼其國，一統為主。
A hundred streams return to the sea, caring not for east or west. The great river rolls on — ten thousand currents converge as one.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire on the mountain, and a traveler witnesses the convergence of all streams. The original verse tells of Ji Zha of Yanling visiting Lu to observe its ritual music, and of an omen — white-headed chariots rumbling — foretelling Qin's rise and its eventual unification of all states under one ruler. Ji Zha, the wandering prince of Wu renowned for his discernment, perceived in the music of nations the seeds of their fates. From The Wanderer to Peace, heaven and earth exchange their energies freely. The wanderer's keen observation becomes prophetic insight: separate streams converging into one great flow, as earth descends and heaven rises to meet it. Unification emerges not from conquest alone but from the natural momentum of a pattern already in motion.
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