Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

眾鳥所聚,中有大怪,九身无頭。魂驚魄去,不可以居。

Where the flock gathers, amid them lurks a great horror: nine bodies without a head. The soul is startled, the spirit flees; one cannot dwell there.

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

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