歸妹

Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

養虎畜狼,還自賊傷。年歲息長,疾君拜禱,雖危不凶。

Raising tiger, keeping wolf, one day they will wound and harm. Years and months pass and grow; when illness comes the lord prays. Though perilous, it is not disastrous.

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

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