Hexagram 54 · line 3
The Marrying Maiden
歸妹Guī Mèi
The younger sister waits to marry; she returns and marries as a secondary wife.
Line statement
六三
歸妹以須，反歸以娣。
The younger sister waits to marry; she returns and marries as a secondary wife.
In the waiting interpretation retained here, Line 3 returns to marriage in a secondary role. Changing it makes Heaven below Thunder, Hexagram 34. The comparison places reduced standing beside great power, whose text also requires constancy.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes