旅 → 賁
Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).
Line 1
初六 旅瑣瑣。斯其所取災。
Six at the beginning means: If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things, He draws down misfortune upon himself.
Line 4
九四 旅于處。得其資斧。我心不快。
Nine in the fourth place means: The wanderer rests in a shelter. He obtains his property and an ax. My heart is not glad.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
生角有尾，張孽制家，排羊逐狐。張氏易公，憂禍重凶。
Born with horns and a tail, this prodigy seizes the household. It drives the sheep and chases the fox; the Zhang clan usurps the duke. Worry and calamity, grievous misfortune.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire on the mountain illuminates a monstrous hybrid — a creature with horns and a tail, its strangeness spreading disorder through the household. The 'Zhang' surname usurps public authority, and sheep are driven out while foxes are pursued — a topsy-turvy governance where predators displace the innocent. The verse alludes to a minister surnamed Zhang who overturned proper hierarchy, breeding anxiety and compounding calamity. From The Wanderer to Grace, fire glows beneath the mountain in gentle adornment. Yet the verse inverts Grace's ideal: instead of refined beauty illuminating mundane affairs, surface decoration conceals the monstrous. When a hornéd, tailed creature runs the household, all ornament becomes grotesque disguise.
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