Hexagram 56
The Wanderer
Fire over Mountain
The judgment
小亨，旅贞吉Fire on the mountain moves with the grass and does not own the slope. A guest who takes the host's chair loses the room, so the move is small, portable and polite.
The image
Fire crosses the hillside and leaves no root behind. A traveler keeps the bag light and the door easy to close.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初六Line 1
旅琐琐，斯其所取灾
At the outset, energy spent on petty details drags one deeper into trouble.
- 六二Line 2
旅即次，怀其资，得僮仆贞
A place to stay, means in hand, and reliable help nearby: a steady footing.
- 九三Line 3
旅焚其次，丧其僮仆，贞厉
Shelter burns down and helpers scatter, leaving nowhere to advance or retreat.
Marked in the textdanger
- 九四Line 4
旅于处，得其资斧，我心不快
Settled for now with tools and means, yet an unease persists underneath.
- 六五Line 5
射雉一矢亡，终以誉命
One shot costs an arrow, yet the loss brings recognition and a charge.
- 上九Line 6
鸟焚其巢，旅人先笑后号咷。丧牛于易，凶
The nest is consumed by fire; the traveler laughs first, then wails aloud. The ox is lost in Yi — the steadiest support gone with it.
Marked in the textominous
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram