Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 15: Modesty

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

群虎入邑,求索肉食。大人禦守,君不失國。

Beacon fires rise on all sides — the watchtower is in peril. The general draws his sword and stands unmoved. Below the walls, ten thousand riders surge like a tide — atop the wall, one banner has not yet fallen.

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

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