Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

延頸望酒,不入我口。深目自苦,利得无有。

Craning the neck, gazing at wine that never reaches my mouth. Eyes deep-set in bitter longing; no profit to be had.

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

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