Gui Mei · The Marrying Maiden

The meaning

What the name means Gui Mei is a young woman going to her husband’s house: by extension a home to go to, and a matter of position and standing.

The picture Thunder over a lake, the water moving and the thunder sounding: feeling moves first and the standing is not yet settled.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about position and standing. It is not that you cannot do the thing, but you should ask what your place is, and not throw yourself in completely while your standing is not yet secure.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Some place or standing in the bond is not set right. Think clearly about what you really want, and do not step forward on a rush of feeling.

The upper trigram is Thunder and the lower is Lake: Thunder above, Lake below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

徵兇，無攸利。

The image

澤上有雷，歸妹；君子以永終知敝。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初九歸妹以娣，跛能履，徵吉。
2. 九二眇能視，利幽人之貞。
3. 六三歸妹以須，反歸以娣。
4. 九四歸妹愆期，遲歸有時。
5. 六五帝乙歸妹，其君之袂不如其娣之袂良，月幾望，吉。
6. 上六女承筐無實，士刲羊無血，無攸利。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".