I Ching hexagram 56

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I Ching hexagram 56, depicted ::||:| is named 旅 (lu3), Sojourning. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, The Wanderer; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Travelling.

• Inner (lower) trigram is ☶ (::| 艮 gen4) Bound = (山) mountain
• Outer (upper) trigram is ☲ (|:| 離 li2) Radiance = (火) fire
• The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With self-restraint (mountain in lower) comes direction-setting, an ideology (fire in upper)"

I Ching hexagrams
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[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself

The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.

• The skeletal form of hexagram 56 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 55 where we have a generic focus on issues of abundance etc. Thus, 56 touches on issues of maintaining a particular loyality to something/someone regardless of the surroundings (and so their temptations - especially strong when away from the usual environment).