Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

人无定法,綬降牛出,虵雄走趨。陽不制陰,宜其家國。

Men lack fixed principles; the seal descends, the ox escapes, the male serpent runs forth. When yang cannot restrain yin, such becomes the state of home and country.

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

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