Hexagram 56
旅 Lǚ
The Wanderer
離
Li — Clinging
Fire · Middle Daughter
艮
Gen — Keeping Still
Mountain · Youngest Son
The Wanderer. Success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer.
Fire on the mountain: the image of the Wanderer. Thus the superior person is clear-minded and cautious in imposing penalties, and protracts no lawsuits.
If the wanderer busies themselves with trivial things, they draw down misfortune upon themselves.
The wanderer comes to an inn. They have their property with them. They win the steadfastness of a young servant.
The wanderer's inn burns down. They lose the steadfastness of the young servant. Danger.
The wanderer rests in a shelter. They obtain their property and an ax. My heart is not glad.
They shoot a pheasant. It drops with the first arrow. In the end this brings both praise and office.
The bird's nest burns up. The wanderer laughs at first, then must needs lament and weep. Through carelessness one loses one's cow. Misfortune.