小過 → 旅
Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).
Line 6
上六 弗遇過之。飛鳥離之。凶。是謂災眚。
Six at the top means: He passes him by, not meeting him. The flying bird leaves him. Misfortune. This means bad luck and injury.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
衣裳顛倒，為王來呼。成就東周，封受大福。
Clothes put on upside-down and backwards, called by the king; establishing the Eastern Zhou, receiving great blessings.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rumbles above the mountain, and robes are put on inside-out in frantic haste as the king's summons arrives. The urgency is rewarded: the Eastern Zhou is established, and great blessings are bestowed. The reversed garments (衣裳顛倒) echo the Odes poem 'Dong Fang Wei Ming' (東方未明) — dressing in disarray because the call came before dawn. The establishment of the Eastern Zhou (成就東周) likely alludes to the relocation of the Zhou capital to Luoyang after the fall of the western capital in 770 BC, when loyal ministers responded to the crisis with desperate speed. From Small Exceeding to the Wanderer, the mountain's thunder transforms into fire upon the mountain — the traveler's signal fire. What begins as displacement (hasty departure, disheveled dress) becomes the foundation of a new order, earned through willingness to move when called.
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