歸妹

Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden

Oppression
Lake / Water
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

伯圭東行,與利相逢。出既遭昧,孰不相知?憂不成凶。

Lord Bo travels east bearing jade, and meets with profit on the road. Setting out only to encounter murk, who then can know the other? Worry does not ripen into disaster.

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

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