Hexagram 56 · line 6
The Wanderer
旅Lǚ
A bird's nest burns. The traveler laughs first and then wails. An ox is lost in the open country. Misfortune.
Line statement
上九
鳥焚其巢，旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易，凶。
A bird's nest burns. The traveler laughs first and then wails. An ox is lost in the open country. Misfortune.
The burning nest and lost ox turn the traveler’s laughter into lament. Changing Line 6 makes Thunder above Mountain, Hexagram 62. Its attention to small matters can be compared with the traveler’s losses.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary 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 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes