Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative

Yilin Verse

十雉百雛,常與母俱。抱雞搏虎,誰肯為侶?

Ten pheasants, a hundred chicks, always with the mother. Clutching a rooster to fight a tiger — who would be his companion?

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

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