Hexagram 56, Lǚ (The Wanderer): Line 3
旅卦九三 · 火山旅 · 中文版
九三:旅焚其次,丧其童仆,贞厉。
The line (Legge)
The third NINE, undivided, shows the stranger, burning his lodging-house, and having lost his servants. However firm and correct he (try to) be, he will be in peril.
Small Image commentary
'The stranger burns his lodging-house:' - and he himself also suffers hurt thereby. When, as a stranger, he treats those below him (as the line indicates), the right relation between him and them is lost.
象曰:旅焚其次,亦以伤矣。以旅与下,其义丧也。
In plain words
The traveller's inn burns down and he loses his servant; holding on is dangerous. The third line is strong but not central, too harsh away from home, and offends people. The Small Image says the burning of the inn is a harm too, and treating those below harshly as a traveller loses their goodwill.
Applying it to your situation
If you take a hard line in unfamiliar surroundings, this line suggests you will lose help that way. Do you show enough respect to those who help you?
Position
A solid (yang) line in the third place, which is a yang (odd) place, so it is in its proper place. Its partner is line 6; both are yang, so they do not respond.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Lǚ changes into Hexagram 35 Jìn (Progress). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·旅之晋.
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.