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旅 小亨。旅貞吉。

The Wanderer.   Success through smallness.   Perseverance brings good fortune to the wanderer.

初六   6 at the start

旅瑣瑣。斯其所取災。

If the wanderer busies himself with trivial things, he draws down misfortune upon himself.

六二   6 in the 2nd

旅即次。懷其資。得童僕貞。

The wanderer comes to an inn.  He has his property with him.  He wins the steadfastness of a young servant.

九三   9 in the 3rd

旅焚其次。喪其童僕。貞厲。

The wanderer's inn burns down.  He loses the steadfastness of his young servant.   Danger.

九四   9 in the 4th

旅于處。得其資斧。我心不快。

The wanderer rests in a shelter.  He obtains his property and an axe.  My heart is not glad.

六五   6 in the 5th

射雉。一矢亡。終以譽命

He shoots a pheasant.  It drops with the first arrow.  In the end this brings both praise and office.

上九   9 at the top

鳥焚其巢。旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易。凶。

The bird's nest burns up.  The wanderer laughs at first, then must needs lament and weep.  Through carelessness he loses his cow.   Misfortune.