Transformation · lines 1 and 4
Good Manners becomes The Traveler
What this change means
Both trigrams trade places, Fire sinking below as Mountain and Mountain rising as Fire, and Good Manners becomes 56 The Traveler. The fourth line leads: well-being is on its way, and you're free to enjoy it. What approaches comes as a suitor, not a raider. The first line keeps that joy grounded: rely only on what's yours, the way someone sets the carriage aside and goes on foot. The resulting hexagram describes a season of movement, perhaps new places or circumstances, with small achievements and a call to stay light and flexible. That fits a traveler who walks. Enjoy what comes without clinging to it, travel with what's truly yours, and be gracious as you make new connections. Traveling with little makes the journey easier.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 4 of 22 Good Manners
A time of great well-being is coming, and you can allow yourself to enjoy it.
Adorned and white; a white horse as if on wings. Not a raider: one who comes to ask for marriage.
- Line 1 of 22 Good Manners
Success in everyday matters now depends on using the resources that are yours, and no more.
Adorning the feet; leaving the carriage and going on foot.
- The judgment of 22 Good Manners
It's a time to be kind and courteous and to use good manners with others if you want good results in what you undertake. What might seem superficial at another time leads you to success now. It's a time to handle everyday matters, not great undertakings.
Success. In small things, it is favorable to have somewhere to go.
- The judgment of 56 The Traveler
It's a time of small achievements. Keep a light, flexible attitude. You may be facing a period of change, new places or situations that ask you to adapt while they settle: let go of attachments and be gracious as you make new connections and your situation takes hold.
Small success. For the traveler, constancy brings good fortune.
The trigrams
The way back
56 The Traveler → 22 Good Mannerslines 1 and 4
Other transformations of Good Manners
- 18Loss, Then Gainlines 1 and 2
- 23The Falllines 1 and 3
- 41Decreaselines 2 and 3
- 14Wealthlines 2 and 4
- 21Bitinglines 3 and 4
- 53Gradual Progresslines 1 and 5
- 9Small Thingslines 2 and 5
- 42Increaselines 3 and 5
- 13Gathering with Equalslines 4 and 5
- 15Simplicitylines 1 and 6
- 11Well-Beinglines 2 and 6
- 24Coming Backlines 3 and 6
- 55Abundancelines 4 and 6
- 63After the Endlines 5 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.