旅 → 震
Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Line 3
九三 旅焚其次。喪其童僕。貞厲。
Nine in the third place means: The wanderer's inn burns down. He loses the steadfastness of his young servant. Danger.
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 6
上九 鳥焚其巢。旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易。凶。
Nine at the top means: The bird's nest burns up. The wanderer laughs at first, Then must needs lament and weep. Through carelessness he loses his cow. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
征將止惡，鼓鞞除賊。慶仲奔莒，子般獲福。
The general marches to suppress evil, beating drums to drive out bandits. Qing Zhong fled to Ju; Zi Ban was blessed with fortune.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire on the mountain, and drums beat to suppress evil and expel treachery. The verse references the crisis in the state of Lu: Qingfu (庆父), whose murderous intrigues killed both Ziban and Duke Min, was finally forced to flee to the state of Ju. With the source of chaos removed, Ziban's legacy was vindicated and the state found peace. 'Qing Zhong fled to Ju, and Ziban received his fortune' — the living gained reprieve only after the troublemaker departed. From The Wanderer to The Arousing, doubled thunder shakes the world and the gentleman practices self-examination through fear. The thunderclap here is the decisive stroke that drives out the usurper: shock administered as corrective force, exile as the state's salvation.
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