The trigram above – LI – the Clinging, Fire
The trigram below – KEN – Keeping Still, Mountain
General: You will travel best when your journey is a quest rather than a holiday or an escape.
Love: Travel will help provide something that is lacking in your relationship provided the journey is not being used as a means of escape.
Business: Travel is necessary to help provide something that is lacking in your business. It is a time tact and diplomacy.
Personal: Travel can be used as a means of gaining knowledge in an area that is lacking.
The mountain, ken, stands still; above it fire, Li, flames up and does not tarry. Therefore the two trigrams do not stay together. Strange lands and separation are the wanderer’s lot.
When a man is a wanderer and stranger, he should not be gruff nor overbearing. he has no large circle of acquaintances, therefore he should not give himself airs. He must be cautious and reserved; in this way he protects himself from evil. If he is obliging toward others, he wins success.
A wanderer has no fixed abode; his home is the road. Therefore he must take care to remain upright and steadfast, so that he sojourns only in the proper places, associating only with good people. Then he has good fortune and can go his way unmolested.
