The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 54

What does I Ching hexagram 54, The Younger Sister Marries, mean?

The judgment

歸妹：征凶，无攸利。The younger sister marries: setting out goes badly. Nothing pays.Zhou Yi 周易, 歸妹, judgment. Source

The image

澤上有雷，歸妹；君子以永終知敝。Thunder above the lake. The noble person looks far ahead and knows what will wear out.Zhou Yi 周易, 歸妹, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初九：歸妹以娣，跛能履，征吉。
2. Second line九二：眇能視，利幽人之貞。
3. Third line六三：歸妹以須，反歸以娣。
4. Fourth line九四：歸妹愆期，遲歸有時。
5. Fifth line六五：帝乙歸妹，其君之袂，不如其娣之袂良，月幾望，吉。
6. Top lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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