歸妹

Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden → Hexagram 17: Following

歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

隄防壞決,河水放逸。傷害稼穡,居孤獨宿,沒溺我邑。

The dike and dam break apart; the river runs wild and free. Crops and harvests ruined; dwelling alone in solitary night, our village drowns beneath the flood.

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

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