歸妹

Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden → Hexagram 6: Conflict

歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative
Lower TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep

Yilin Verse

右撫琴頭,左手援帶。凶訟不已,相與爭戾,失利而歸。

Right hand caresses the qin's head; left hand tugs the sash. Bitter litigation ceases not; they contend and quarrel with one another, returning home having lost their gain.

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

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