Wandering & Returning Soul

Wandering and Returning Soul are fixed Eight-Palace classifications. Traditional imagery extends wandering and returning into movement, shifting direction, return and belonging. The structural classification comes first; the querent’s travel plans do not determine whether a hexagram belongs to either class.

Counting the pure palace hexagram first, Wandering Soul is seventh and Returning Soul eighth. Flip line four of the fifth-generation hexagram to get Wandering Soul, then flip its bottom three lines for Returning Soul. Self is at line four and line three respectively.

The Qian-palace sequence is 1, 44, 33, 12, 20, 23, 35 and 14. Jin is Wandering Soul and Da You Returning Soul; an unchanging Jin still belongs to Wandering Soul. Palace-generation flips are separate from moving lines in an actual cast.

Jin is seventh in Qian’s palace and has Self at line four. In a travel question, wandering imagery can supplement the subject while Self support and moving lines are examined. In a document question, select Parents first rather than turning the classification into a travel story.

Da You is Returning Soul with Self at line three, changing Other and intervening positions too. These names have a structural use and an imagery use; explain both without treating Returning as a settled final outcome.