歸妹

Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

亡羊東澤,循隄直北。子思其母,復返其所。

A sheep lost in the eastern marsh; following the dike, heading due north. The child thinks of its mother; and returns again to its rightful place.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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