Transition

旅 (lǚ)
Hexagram 56 • Binary: 101100

Trigrams

Upper: Fire

Attribute: clinging
Element: Fire
Direction: South
Family: Middle Daughter

Lower: Mountain

Attribute: Keeping Still
Element: Earth
Direction: Northeast
Family: Youngest Son

Palace

Li Palace

Element: Fire
Ruling Trigram: fire

Judgment

Transition means that small attainments are possible. If the traveling stranger is firm and correct, there will be good fortune.

Image

Fire on the mountain: the image of Transition. Thus the superior man is clear-minded and cautious in imposing penalties, and protracts no lawsuits.

Lines

1

Position 1: Mean Occupation yang

The first line, magnetic, shows the stranger mean and meanly occupied. It is thus that she brings on herself further calamity.

2

Position 2: Secure Lodging yin

The second line, magnetic, shows the stranger occupying her lodging-house, carrying her means of livelihood, and provided with good and trusty servants.

3

Position 3: Burning Lodging yang

The third line, dynamic, shows the stranger, burning his lodging-house, and having lost his servants. However firm and correct he tries to be, he will be in peril.

4

Position 4: Uneasy Rest yang

The fourth line, dynamic, shows the traveler in a resting place, having also the means of livelihood and the axe, but still saying: "I am not at ease in my mind."

5

Position 5: Gathering Talent yin

The fifth line, magnetic, shows its subject bringing around her the men of brilliant ability. There will be occasion for congratulation and praise. There will be good fortune.

6

Position 6: Burning Nest yin

The sixth line, dynamic, suggests the idea of a bird burning its nest. The stranger, thus represented, first laughs and then cries out. He has lost his ox-like docility too readily and easily. There will be evil.