Lu · The Wanderer

The meaning

What the name means Lu is travelling, being a guest, being away.

The picture Fire on a mountain, burning there but soon gone, unable to stay long.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about the position of being away. As a guest do not be forceful; keep to your place, be careful, and make no trouble. A temporary stop should not be taken for a permanent home.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

A state of being on the road or staying for a while. Less edge and more care; keep your measure and do not insist on security.

The upper trigram is Fire and the lower is Mountain: Fire above, Mountain below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

小亨，旅貞吉。

The image

山上有火，旅；君子以明慎用刑，而不留獄。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初六旅瑣瑣，斯其所取災。
2. 六二旅即次，懷其資，得童僕貞。
3. 九三旅焚其次，喪其童僕，貞厲。
4. 九四旅於處，得其資斧，我心不快。
5. 六五射雉一矢亡，終以譽命。
6. 上九鳥焚其巢，旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛於易，兇。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".