旅 → 姤
Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 旅瑣瑣。斯其所取災。
Six at the beginning means: If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things, He draws down misfortune upon himself.
Line 2
六二 旅即次。懷其資。得童僕貞。
Six in the second place means: The wanderer comes to an inn. He has his property with him. He wins the steadfastness of a young servant.
Line 4
九四 旅于處。得其資斧。我心不快。
Nine in the fourth place means: The wanderer rests in a shelter. He obtains his property and an ax. My heart is not glad.
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
高阜山陵，陂陁顛崩。為國妖祥，元后以薨。
High mounds and mountain ridges, slopes collapsing and peaks crumbling. An ill omen for the realm; the sovereign thereby perishes.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire on the mountain, and the high mounds and ridges suddenly crack and collapse. This becomes a portent for the state — an ill omen of the highest order — and the sovereign perishes. Mountain collapse was understood in Han cosmology as a direct sign of dynastic catastrophe: when the earth itself cannot hold its shape, the mandate of heaven is withdrawing. From The Wanderer to Coming to Meet, wind stirs beneath heaven, and the king issues commands to all quarters. Yet the verse describes the moment before that authority shatters. The sovereign dies because the very ground of his legitimacy has given way. Coming to Meet warns against the yin force rising unexpectedly — here, it rises as geological disaster, the earth itself turning treacherous.
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