歸妹

Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

夏麥麩䵃,霜擊其芒。疾君敗國,使年夭傷。

Summer wheat turned to bran and chaff; frost strikes down its awns. Sickness plagues the lord and ruins the state; the year's young lives are cut short.

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

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