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归妹

Hexagram 54
Kuei Mei - The Marrying Maiden

yin
yin above: Chên / The Arousing, Thunder
yang
yin
yang below: Tui / The Joyous, Lake
yang

CHANGING LINE:

Hexagram Fifty-Four/Line Six


Six at the top means:
The woman holds the basket, but there are no fruits in it.
The man stabs the sheep, but no blood flows.
Nothing that acts to further.

Sheep basket


At the sacrifice to the ancestors, the woman had to present harvest offerings in a basket, while the man slaughtered the sacrificial animal with his own hand. Here the ritual is only superficially fulfilled; the woman takes an empty basket and the man stabs a sheep slaughtered beforehand - solely to preserve the forms. This impious, irreverent attitude bodes no good for a marriage.

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