Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 20: Contemplation

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Contemplation
Wind / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

牽頭繫尾,屈折幾死。周世无人,不知所歸。

Pulled by the head, bound at the tail; bent and broken, near death. The age of Zhou has no one left; there is nowhere to return.

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

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