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旅

№ 56 · union and gathering

The Wanderer

Hexagram The Wanderer shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

wanderingtransitionmeasure

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

旅：小亨，旅贞吉。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

The Traveler: small free passage. The traveler’s constancy is auspicious.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-56-guaci · sha256:bf4ff6be11d70437a173fbff3c9549cb44838c01a333b4789041a19045c2b82a

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六：旅琐琐，斯其所取灾。

Initial Six: the traveler is petty and fussy; this is what brings disaster upon him.

琐琐 is reduplicative smallness/triviality; “petty and fussy” is editorial.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：旅即次，怀其资，得童仆贞。

Six in the Second: the traveler reaches lodging, carries his property, and gains a young servant’s constancy.

童仆贞 is socially historical; “faithful servant” interprets 贞 functionally and remains reviewable.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

九三：旅焚其次，丧其童仆，贞厉。

Nine in the Third: the traveler burns his lodging and loses his young servant. Constancy: danger.

The loss of a young servant reflects an ancient social hierarchy and violent loss imagery. It is preserved as source language, not normalized into modern social advice.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

九四：旅于处，得其资斧，我心不快。

Nine in the Fourth: the traveler rests at a place and obtains his property and axe. My heart is not joyful.

资斧 can be resources and an axe/tool; the draft keeps both concretely rather than reducing it to “means.”

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：射雉一矢亡，终以誉命。

Six in the Fifth: shooting a pheasant, one arrow is lost. In the end, there is praise and an appointment.

誉命 can combine praise with an appointment, mandate, or command. The final baseline chooses the institutional “appointment” reading for the displayed translation and keeps the alternatives explicit here.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上九：鸟焚其巢，旅人先笑后号咷。丧牛于易，凶。

Top Nine: a bird burns its nest. The traveler first laughs, afterward howls and cries. Losing an ox in Yi. Misfortune.

易 may be a place name or another old sense; as in 34.5, it is retained as Yi rather than silently resolved.

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Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of wandering: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • • First read The Wanderer as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a The Wanderer day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, The Wanderer asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • • Which small step fits the timing?
  • • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “The Wanderer” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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