兌 → 歸妹
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Trigram Changes
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
Commentary
Paired lakes meet thunder above the lake — the Marrying Maiden, where following joy leads to an unequal bond. Raising tigers and keeping wolves, one is wounded by the very beasts one nurtured. Yet as years pass and growth continues, the lord prays through illness, and though danger threatens, no final calamity comes. From The Joyous to the Marrying Maiden, the verse warns that indulged dangers eventually bite back — yet also affirms resilience. The Marrying Maiden knows the flaw in her position; awareness of the arrangement's inherent peril is itself the survival mechanism. To 'know the ending and understand the flaw' is to endure what cannot be avoided.
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