Marrying Maiden · Lei Ze Gui Mei
The Marrying Maiden — the secondary position that must be held with dignity.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 54 warns of taking a position that is not quite primary — the long game played from a secondary seat. Its counsel is to know your place and hold it with grace, because pushing for more now would bring disorder. Endure the arrangement with patience, keep your conduct clean, and the situation may mature in time.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Lake (Dui) · Metal
- Upper trigram: Thunder (Zhen) · Wood
- House: Lake (Dui) · Metal
- Text in the original Chinese: 雷泽归妹