Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

松柏棟梁,相輔為強;八哲五教,王室康寧。

Pine, cypress, ridge-beam, pillar; they support and strengthen each other. Eight wise men and five teachings; the royal house is at peace.

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

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