Hexagram 56 · line 3
The Wanderer
旅Lǚ
The traveler's lodging burns, and the young attendant is lost. Constancy is dangerous.
Line statement
九三
旅焚其次，喪其童僕，貞厲。
The traveler's lodging burns, and the young attendant is lost. Constancy is dangerous.
The lodging burns and the attendant is lost at Line 3; the verdict warns of danger in persistence. Its change makes Earth below Fire, Hexagram 35. The theme of progress stands in tension with the traveler’s loss of shelter and help.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes