Hexagram 56 · ䷷
The Wanderer. Success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer.
Judgment
The Wanderer. Success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer.
Image
Fire on the mountain represents the Wanderer. The noble person is clear-minded and cautious in imposing punishments and does not delay trials.
Lines
If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things, he draws down misfortune. The wanderer comes to an inn with his possessions. He wins the steadfastness of a young servant. The w...
The Wanderer. Success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer.
The Wanderer. Success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer.
The Wanderer means success through smallness. The yielding attains the outside and follows the hard. Keeping still and attached to clarity, hence success through smallness. The Wanderer: perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer because his will is not exhausted. The meaning of the time of the Wanderer is great indeed.
The Wanderer means small success. The yielding attains its place outside and follows the hard. Stillness joined to clarity is why small success is possible. Perseverance brings good fortune to the traveler because his purpose is not exhausted. The meaning of the Wanderer in its proper time is indeed great.
Fire on the mountain: the image of the Wanderer. The noble person is clear-minded and cautious in imposing punishments and does not delay trials.
Fire on the mountain represents the Wanderer. The noble person is clear-minded and cautious in imposing punishments and does not delay trials.
If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things, he draws down misfortune upon himself.
If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things, he draws down misfortune.
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If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things: his will is exhausted and brings misfortune.
Busying with trivial things exhausts the will and brings misfortune.
The wanderer comes to an inn. He has his possessions with him. He wins the steadfastness of a young servant.
The wanderer comes to an inn with his possessions. He wins the steadfastness of a young servant.
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He wins the steadfastness of a young servant: in the end there is no blame.
Winning steadfastness of young servant means no blame in the end.
The wanderer's inn burns down. He loses the steadfastness of his young servant. Perseverance brings danger.
The wanderer's inn burns down. He loses the steadfastness of his young servant. Perseverance brings danger.
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The wanderer's inn burns down: this is a matter for sorrow. By treating servants as wanderers, the right course is lost.
Inn burning down is sorrowful. Treating servants as wanderers loses the right course.
The wanderer rests in a shelter. He obtains his property and an ax. My heart is not glad.
The wanderer rests in a shelter. He obtains his property and an ax. My heart is not glad.
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The wanderer rests in a shelter: he has not yet attained his position. He obtains his property and an ax: his heart is not glad.
Resting in shelter means position not yet attained. Obtaining property and ax but heart not glad.
He shoots a pheasant. It drops with the first arrow. In the end this brings praise and high rank.
He shoots a pheasant. It drops with the first arrow. In the end this brings praise and high rank.
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In the end this brings praise and high rank: he has attained what was above him.
Praise and high rank in the end means attaining what was above.
The bird's nest burns up. The wanderer first laughs, afterward must needs weep and lament. He carelessly loses his cow in his ease. Misfortune.
The bird's nest burns up. The wanderer first laughs, afterward weeps and laments. He carelessly loses his cow in his ease. Misfortune.
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As wanderer, he is at the top: his right course is burned up. He carelessly loses his cow in his ease: in the end he will hear no more.
Wanderer at top means right course burned up. Losing cow in ease means hearing no more in the end.
What does Lü / The Wanderer mean in the I Ching?
The Wanderer. Success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer.
How should I study Hexagram 56 on this page?
Start with the judgment and image, then read the line statements in sequence. If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things, he draws down misfortune. The wanderer comes to an inn with his possessions. He wins the steadfastness of a young servant. The w...
How can this hexagram be applied in a modern reading?
The Wanderer means small success. The yielding attains its place outside and follows the hard. Stillness joined to clarity is why small success is possible. Perseverance brings good fortune to the traveler because his pu...
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