旅 → 咸
Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
Line 5
六五 射雉。一矢亡。終以譽命。
Six in the fifth place means: He shoots a pheasant. It drops with the first arrow. In the end this brings both praise and office.
Line 6
上九 鳥焚其巢。旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易。凶。
Nine at the top means: The bird's nest burns up. The wanderer laughs at first, Then must needs lament and weep. Through carelessness he loses his cow. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
金梁銕柱，千年牢固。完全不腐，聖人安處。
Golden beams, iron pillars; steadfast for a thousand years. Whole and uncorrupted; the sage dwells there in peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire on the mountain, and below stands a structure built to last a thousand years. Golden beams and iron pillars — complete, incorruptible, unrotting — provide a dwelling where the sage rests in peace. This is architecture as permanence incarnate: no wanderer's tent or roadside inn, but a fortress of enduring materials. The verse offers the opposite of transience: what is built with the strongest elements need never be rebuilt. From The Wanderer to Influence, a lake rests atop the mountain, and the open heart receives all. The sage's secure dwelling is not a sealed vault but an open structure — firm in its foundations yet receptive at its summit. True permanence comes from influence that endures because its core is unshakable.
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