Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 17: Following

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

叔盻抱冤,祁子自邑。乘遽解患,羊舌以免。賴其福全。

Shu Xi nursed a grievance; Qi Zi fled to his own city. Riding the courier horse, the crisis was resolved; Yangshe was thereby spared. His good fortune preserved him whole.

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

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