The Wanderer
The Passing Flame
A stranger's whole capital is reserve and correctness; nothing he gains abroad is secure.
Gen, Keeping Still, Mountain, stands below Li, the Clinging, Fire, and the Image is fire on the mountain, burning through the grass and moving on while the mountain stays where it is. The hexagram is accordingly the state of the traveller, the merchant abroad and the exile, who holds no standing in the place he has come to. Its Judgement promises success only through smallness, reserve and correctness being the wanderer's whole capital. The lines bring him to an inn, give him property and a servant, then burn the inn down, and the Image has the superior man be clear and cautious in penalties and protract no lawsuit.
Light
Modesty carries a stranger further than force. The fifth line brings down a pheasant with one arrow and wins praise and office, the reward of correct conduct among people who owe him nothing.
Shadow
Nothing here is secure. Trivial or overbearing conduct costs the little that was gained; the inn burns, the bird's nest burns, and the last line laughs before it must lament and weep.
