Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

六鷁退飛,為衰敗祥。陳師合戰,左股疾傷。遂以薨崩,霸功不成。

Six cormorants fly backward — an omen of decay and defeat. Marshaling troops for battle, the left thigh is wounded. Thereupon he falls and dies; his hegemony is not achieved.

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

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