履 → 歸妹
Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
Line 5
九五 夬履。貞厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Resolute conduct. Perseverance with awareness of danger.
Line 6
上九 視履考祥。其旋元吉。
Nine at the top means: Look to your conduct and weigh the favorable signs. When everything is fulfilled, supreme good fortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
五利四福，俱佃高邑；黍稷盛茂，多獲藁稻。
Five gains and four blessings; all tending the high city. Millet and grain grow lush and full; a great harvest of straw and rice.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven above the lake, and the harvest is splendid. Five kinds of profit and four kinds of blessing converge as farmers cultivate the high fields. Millet and grain grow thick and lush; the yield of straw and rice is abundant. Every agricultural indicator points to prosperity — the land is generous, the season cooperative, the labor fruitful. From Treading to the Marrying Maiden, thunder stirs above the lake. The maiden enters her husband's household, and the verse's agricultural abundance becomes her dowry: a well-cultivated field is the foundation of a new household. Proper conduct in farming produces the surplus that makes family formation possible.
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