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56. The wanderer

lǚ · Fire ☲ over Thunder ☳

Being on the road, without a fixed place of support.

The Noble One's Path

Fire atop a mountain. The Wanderer, being outside his own community, must act toward others with double caution and speed.

The Lesson

Travel light — literally and figuratively. Your only permanent home is your inner truth.

A question to sit with

In which areas of my life do I feel like a wanderer — and what does that tell me about my sense of security?

Related hexagrams

In the I Ching no hexagram stands alone. Each one enters into relationships with others, and those relationships show the situation seen from the other side, in its opposite, and in its hidden tendency.

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The classical deep dive for this hexagram — the Judgment and the Image after Richard Wilhelm — along with the texts of all six changing lines, is in the book. Get the book

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