Hexagram 56, Lǚ (The Wanderer): Line 2
旅卦六二 · 火山旅 · 中文版
六二：旅即次，怀其资，得童仆贞。
The line (Legge)
The second SIX, divided, shows the stranger, occupying his lodging-house, carrying with him his means of livelihood, and provided with good and trusty servants.
Small Image commentary
'He is provided with good and trusty servants:' - he will in the end have nothing of which to complain.
象曰：得童仆贞，终无尤也。
In plain words
The traveller reaches an inn, carrying his means, and gains a loyal servant. The second line is yielding, central and correct; it is settled away from home and finds help. The Small Image says in the end there is no fault.
Applying it to your situation
If you are in a new place, this line suggests settling in and making reliable friends first. What security do you most need away from home?
Position
A broken (yin) line in the second place, which is a yin (even) place, so it is in its proper place. It holds the centre of the lower trigram. Its partner is line 5; both are yin, so they do not respond.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Lǚ changes into Hexagram 50 Dǐng (The Cauldron). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·旅之鼎.
A recorded case from Takashima
Lü (Wanderer) to Ding: five years in the life of a coal mine: Touring Kyushu in 1884, Takashima visited a coal mine, and that evening its staff asked his opinion. Saying he knew nothing of mining, he cast and got the second line of Lü, "the traveller reaches an inn with his goods and loyal servants". The mine had money and people and could last; then, line by line, he forecast a fire next year, profits the year after to cover it, a peak of reputation, and, within five years, the danger of "the bird's nest burning".
The hexagram
Hexagram 56 Lǚ (The Wanderer). The Judgment: Lu intimates that (in the condition which it denotes) there may be some little attainment and progress. If the stranger or traveller be firm and correct as he ought to be, there will be good fortune.
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English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.