Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 7: The Army

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep

Yilin Verse

衛侯東遊,惑於少姬。忘我考妣,久迷不來。

The Marquis of Wei journeyed east, beguiled by the young Lady Ji. Forgetting his father and mother, long lost, he did not return.

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

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