旅 → 艮
Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
良夫淑女，配合相保。多孫眾子，懽樂長久。
A fine husband and a virtuous wife, matched and joined, preserving one another. Many grandsons and numerous children; joy and delight enduring long.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire on the mountain, and below the mountain stands a vision of conjugal harmony. A good husband and a virtuous wife protect each other; many sons and grandsons fill the household with enduring joy. This is the simplest and most complete reversal of the wanderer's condition: rootlessness transformed into generational permanence, solitude dissolved into abundant family. From The Wanderer to Keeping Still, twin mountains stand firm. The wanderer ceases to wander — not through exhaustion but through fulfillment. Keeping Still's injunction to 'think not beyond one's position' is joyfully obeyed when one's position is precisely where one belongs: at home, surrounded by loved ones, with no reason to move.
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