Hexagram 56 · Lǚ (旅) · The Traveler

旅：小亨，旅貞吉。

Lü intimates that (in the condition which it denotes) there may be some little attainment and progress. If the stranger or traveller be firm and correct as he ought to be, there will be good fortune.

初六：旅瑣瑣，斯其所取災。

The first line, divided, shows the stranger mean and meanly occupied. It is thus that he brings on himself (further) calamity.

六二：旅即次，懷其資，得童僕貞。

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

九三：旅焚其次，喪其童僕，貞厲。

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

九四：旅于處，得其資斧，我心不快。

The fourth line, undivided, shows the traveller in a resting-place, having (also) the means of livelihood and the axe, (but still saying), ‘I am not at ease in my mind.’

六五：射雉一矢亡，終以譽命。

The fifth line, divided, shows its subject shooting a pheasant. He will lose his arrow, but in the end he will obtain praise and a (high) charge.

上九：鳥焚其巢，旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易，凶。

The sixth line, undivided, 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.