Hexagram 56 · line 4
The Wanderer
旅Lǚ
The traveler rests in a place and gains resources and an axe. My heart is not glad.
Line statement
九四
旅于處，得其資斧，我心不快。
The traveler rests in a place and gains resources and an axe. My heart is not glad.
Line 4 has a stopping place, resources, and an axe, yet the heart remains unhappy. Changing it makes Mountain above Mountain, Hexagram 52. Physical stillness can be compared with the lack of inward ease in the traveler’s account.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes