小畜 → 旅
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 復自道。何其咎。吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Return to the way. How could there be blame in this? Good fortune.
Line 2
九二 牽復。吉。
Nine in the second place means: He allows himself to be drawn into returning. Good fortune.
Line 4
六四 有孚。血去惕出。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: If you are sincere, blood vanishes and fear gives way. No blame.
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。富以其鄰。
Nine in the fifth place means: If you are sincere and loyally attached, You are rich in your neighbor.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
陽火不災，喜至慶來；降福送喜，鼓琴歌謳。
Yang fire brings no disaster; joy arrives and celebration comes. Blessings descend and happiness is sent; drumming the zither, singing songs.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven meets fire upon the mountain — the Wanderer's transient flame. Benevolent fire refrains from causing disaster; joy and celebration arrive. Blessings are sent down with delight; the zither is strummed and songs fill the air. From Small Taming to the Wanderer, the verse finds warmth within impermanence. Lu's fire on the mountain is brief but illuminating — the wanderer who passes through leaves light, not destruction. The 'yang fire' that does not burn destructively is restraint in motion: fire that knows it is a guest. The music and singing transform transience into festivity rather than mourning. When one travels light and blesses where one passes, even rootlessness becomes a kind of homecoming.
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