賁 → 歸妹
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 賁其須。
Six in the second place means: Lends grace to the beard on his chin.
Line 3
九三 賁如濡如。永貞吉。
Nine in the third place means: Graceful and moist. Constant perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 4
六四 賁如皤如。白馬翰如。匪寇婚媾。
Six in the fourth place means: Grace or simplicity? A white horse comes as if on wings. He is not a robber, He will woo at the right time.
Line 6
上九 白賁。无咎。
Nine at the top means: Simple grace. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
張羅捕鳩，鳥麗其災。雌雄俱得，為罔所賊。
Spreading nets to catch doves; the birds fall into disaster. Male and female are both taken; trapped by the snare.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain sets a trap. Nets are spread to catch doves, and the birds encounter their disaster. Both male and female are snared together, destroyed by the hunter's mesh. The scene is efficient and merciless: the net (罔) does not discriminate, catching both members of the pair. In the marriage context of the target hexagram, this pairing-then-trapping takes on a specific resonance. From Grace to the Marrying Maiden, fire beneath the mountain yields to thunder above the lake. The Marrying Maiden describes a subordinate union — a younger sister given in marriage, often without full agency. The trapped dove-pair mirrors the hexagram's theme: union that is also a kind of captivity, joy shadowed by the net that closes around it.
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