臨 → 歸妹
Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
六四 至臨。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Complete approach. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
域域牧牧，憂禍相半；隔以巖山，室家分散。
Anxious and fretful, worry and misfortune evenly matched; divided by crag and mountain -- hearth and home are scattered apart.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above the lake encounters thunder above the lake — the Marrying Maiden's irreversible commitment. Restless and anxious, worry and calamity divide in half. Separated by craggy mountains, household and family scatter. The verse paints domestic dissolution: constant agitation, shared misfortune, and finally a mountain range splitting the family apart. From Approach to the Marrying Maiden, the elder's protective oversight gives way to a union that cannot be undone — for better or worse. Thunder over the lake in Gui Mei is the younger sister given in marriage, a one-way journey. The rocky mountains between family members represent the irreversibility of the commitment: once the maiden crosses the threshold, the old household configuration is permanently altered.
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