64 hexagrams, mapped by situation · Hexagram 56 · Lv

Lv: You are away, and you are held together by carefulness

This page describes a situation. It gives no verdict. The number, trigrams and inner hexagram are all checkable.
Answer first (self-contained)Lv (hexagram 56, 离 over 艮) describes this kind of situation: You are away, and you are held together by carefulness. It does not predict anything and it does not decide for you. It does one thing: it makes visible which dynamic you are currently inside, so you can recognise whether you are in it. There are three ways to check. First, the situation itself: You are away, and you are held together by carefulness. Second, three checkable facts below (the number, the two trigrams, and the inner hexagram). Third, the three steps at the bottom, and whether you have done any of them.

What situation this is

You are working on someone else's ground. No footing of your own. Not much to work with. Open to being questioned at any moment. Your way through is carefulness. You say the right amount. You keep the right posture. You do the right amount. You do well, and you know that none of it is actually yours.

Checkable facts

Number
Hexagram 56 of 64
Name
旅 (Lv)
Trigrams
离 over 艮
Inner hexagram
The internal force is 大过
Reversed
Reversed hexagram: Jie
Inverted
Inverted hexagram: Feng
Palace
离 (一世)
Book
下经
Structure
离上艮下
Seasonal phase
-
Law attached
同构 (secondary: 临界)
Position
Previous Feng, next Xun

How it differs from the neighbours

Previous hexagram Feng (hexagram 55) describes: You are at your best, so you have to hold it.
Next hexagram Xun (hexagram 57) describes: It is going too well, so nobody warned you.
The inner hexagram (internal force) The inner hexagram is 大过. The situation on this page is what is visible; Da Guo again, and the bending happens when the load is not yours to carry. is what has been going on inside it. They are different layers, and reading one as the other is the usual mistake.

Three steps you can take today

  1. The strongest zone is the threshold. How far you are from it has to be measured first.
  2. Write down one thing you do not dare do here, and check whether you would dare it at home.
  3. Which of the rules I keep here are imposed on me, and which did I choose?

Do just this today Today, do one small thing you would not dare do here.

Does this sound like you

How this path works, and where it breaksLv is the traveller, and Da Guo inside it says the bending happens when the load is not yours. So the next step is one small thing you would not dare do here. That is how you find out which of your carefulness is chosen and which is imposed.
Inner hexagram: the internal forceDa Guo again, and the bending happens when the load is not yours to carry.
What this hexagram does not doThis does not tell you to go home, and it does not tell you to stay. Lv says the traveller is petty, and while away a small mistake is enough to bring you down. Your steadiness here was bought with care.
Most likely misuseThe easiest misuse is reading it as how to get by away from home. The stability you have here was purchased with carefulness. It is not the same as being settled.

Sources for this page

Original text (judgment and Tuan commentary)
I Ching, hexagram 56
离上艮下
Data source
周易深度解析与蒸馏_v3 · 卦义表
Number, trigrams, inner hexagram, reversed, inverted, palace and seasonal phase all come from the original text and can be checked.
Who wrote the situation descriptions
Original to this project
Situation names, signals, today's step, micro-action and the core question were written for this project. They are not from the original text and are not an authoritative reading of it.
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