旅 → 遯
Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 33: Retreat
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
彭名為妖，暴龍作災。盜堯衣裳，聚跖荷兵。青禽照夜，三旦夷亡。
Black banners cover the fields — bandits gather their camp. Beacon fires burn for three months, nights without peace. Suddenly heavenly thunder splits the commander's tent — the bandits scatter in all directions, wailing like ghosts.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire on the mountain, and the original verse names Peng Ming as a demonic force, a violent dragon bringing catastrophe. Bandits steal the garments of sage-kings and gather armies under the banner of stolen legitimacy. Then the 'blue bird illuminates the night' — a dawn omen or celestial intervention — and after three dawns the barbarians are destroyed. The verse describes usurpers who dress themselves in Yao's robes while wielding Robber Zhi's weapons, false order masking true chaos. From The Wanderer to Retreat, heaven rises above the mountain, and the gentleman distances himself from petty men. The celestial strike that scatters the bandits enacts Retreat's principle: darkness disperses not through confrontation but through the return of authentic light.
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