Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 8: Holding Together

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Holding Together
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

烏合卒會,與惡相得。鴟鴞相酬,為心所賊。

A rabble assembled by chance, finding kinship with the wicked. Owls toast one another; the heart is its own undoing.

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

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