Hexagram 54 · line 4
The Marrying Maiden
歸妹Guī Mèi
The younger sister misses the appointed time. Delayed marriage still has its time.
Line statement
九四
歸妹愆期，遲歸有時。
The younger sister misses the appointed time. Delayed marriage still has its time.
The delayed marriage in Line 4 still has an appropriate time. Its change makes Earth above Lake, Hexagram 19. Approach can be compared with waiting for a fitting occasion.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes