Hexagram 56 of 64 · King Wen sequence

The Wanderer

旅 · lǚ

Above: Fire
Below: Mountain

Fire above the mountain: the wanderer’s fire does not linger — passing through, keeping conduct fine, burning nothing down.

Fire on the mountain does not stay: The Wanderer is the hexagram of the passing stay — away from your own ground, among strangers, burning briefly and burning nothing down. Its counsel is conduct in the transit: small clarity, careful speech, no attachments that cannot be carried.

The warnings are specific: lodgings that turn hostile, a bird whose nest burns. And the virtue is small and real: keep the light fine, keep the company light, and know that the wanderer’s wealth is in what he can carry.

Questions this hexagram asks

Where am I a wanderer right now — and what am I trying to own there?
What does travelling light actually include, and what must be left?
What conduct, kept fine, makes strangers warm to a passer-through?

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