歸妹 → 蹇
Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden → Hexagram 39: Obstruction
䷵
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
→
䷦
蹇
Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramThunder → WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake → MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
拔劍傷手，見敵不善。良臣無佐，國憂為咎。
Drawing the sword, he wounds his own hand; facing the enemy, nothing goes well. The loyal minister has no support; the state's sorrow becomes its undoing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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