歸妹

Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

絕世无嗣,福祿不存。精神渙散,離其躬身。

The line is severed, no heir remains; fortune and rank endure no more. Spirit and essence scatter and fade, departing from the living body.

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

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