I Ching · Hexagram 54
Guī Mèi: The Marrying Maiden
Thunder over the lake: feeling follows a stronger impulse. Gui Mei is entering a situation on unequal terms, when it helps to see your position clearly and not expect more than it can give.
- Keywords
- Unequal footing, expectations, roles, patience
- Upper trigram
- Thunder (Zhen)
- Lower trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Advice
- Be realistic about your role and focus on what will last.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.