Hexagram 56 · King Wen sequence

Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

旅 · Lu

travelimpermanenceadaptation

You are operating in territory that is not fully yours, so flexibility and good conduct matter.

Upper and lower trigrams

Upper: Fire離 · Li · clarity and radianceLower: Mountain艮 · Gen · stillness and boundary

Reflection meaning

You are operating in territory that is not fully yours, so flexibility and good conduct matter.

Travel light, respect local conditions, and avoid commitments that assume more stability than you have.

If this hexagram appears in a changing reading

Changing lines mark the parts of the six-line figure that move from yin to yang or yang to yin. Those changes generate a second hexagram. Oracle Mirror presents the first hexagram as the current symbolic pattern and the transformed hexagram as a second lens on the direction of change; it does not treat the second figure as a guaranteed future event.

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