The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 56
What does I Ching hexagram 56, The Traveller, mean?
旅Fire 離 above
Mountain 艮 below
Hexagram 56 of the I Ching is The Traveller (旅), Fire over Mountain. Its judgment opens “The traveller: small success.”
The judgment
旅：小亨，旅貞吉。The traveller: small success. Holding firm brings the traveller good fortune.Zhou Yi 周易, 旅, judgment. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初六：旅瑣瑣，斯其所取災。
- Second line六二：旅即次，懷其資，得僮僕貞。
- Third line九三：旅焚其次，喪其僮僕，貞厲。
- Fourth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Fifth line六五：射雉一矢亡，終以譽命。
- Top line上九：鳥焚其巢，旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易，凶。
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