歸妹

Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden

Holding Together
Water / Earth
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

一身兩頭,莫適其軀。亂不可治,孰為湯漢。

One body with two heads; no way to suit both. Disorder beyond remedy; who shall be Tang, who shall be Han?

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

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