歸妹

Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden

The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
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Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder Thunder
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

火雖熾,在吾後。寇雖眾,出我右。身安吉,不危殆。

Though fire blazes, it is behind me. Though bandits are many, they emerge to my right. Body at peace, fortune assured; no peril or danger.

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

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