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Primary Hexagram: #56 Lu - The Wanderer
Related Hexagram: #08 Pi - Holding Together [Union]
The Judgment:
The Wanderer. Success through smallness.Perseverance brings good fortune
To the wanderer.
The Image:
Fire on the mountain:The image of the Wanderer.
Thus the superior man
Is clear-minded and cautious
In imposing penalties,
And protracts no lawsuits.
The wanderer's inn burns down.
He loses the steadfastness of his young servant.
Danger.
The wanderer rests in a shelter.
He obtains his property and an ax.
My heart is not glad.
He shoots a pheasant.
It drops with the first arrow.
In the end this brings both praise and office.
The bird's nest burns up.
The wanderer laughs at first,
Then must needs lament and weep.
Through carelessness he loses his cow.
Misfortune.
On the earth is water:
The image of Holding Together.
Thus the kings of antiquity
Bestowed the different states as fiefs
And cultivated friendly relations
With the feudal lords.
