Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 35: Progress

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

鷦鷯竊脂,巢於小枝。搖動不安,為風所吹,心寒飄搖,常憂危殆。

The wren steals fat and nests upon a slender twig. Shaken and uneasy, blown by the wind; the heart chills, tossed about, ever fearing peril.

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

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