Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 38: Opposition

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

負牛上山,力劣行難。烈風雨雪,遮遏我前。中道復還。

Shouldering a stone stele up a sheer cliff — knees buckling, waist bent, sweat like mud. Blizzard seals the path, three steps backward for each one. Abandoning the stele, descending — the person is already spent.

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

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