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歸妹

№ 54 · conflict and boundary

Marrying Maiden

Hexagram Marrying Maiden shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

uneven uniontransitionmeasure

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

归妹：征凶，无攸利。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

The Marrying Maiden: to set out is ominous. Nothing is beneficial.

归妹 is a historical marriage/kinship title; modern gender norms must not be inferred from the formula.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-54-guaci · sha256:0c7668861f5375b22017f2085abaa2b9b1b0e21ae35e64b91302f14e169d7f4c

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初九：归妹以娣，跛能履，征吉。

Initial Nine: the marrying maiden as a younger secondary wife. The lame can walk. To set out is auspicious.

娣 is a younger sister/secondary-wife kinship role; translation keeps the historical institution visible.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

九二：眇能视，利幽人之贞。

Nine in the Second: one-eyed yet able to see. Beneficial is the constancy of the secluded person.

The bodily image is preserved without moralizing disability.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：归妹以须，反归以娣。

Six in the Third: the marrying maiden waits; returning, she marries as a younger secondary wife.

须 is difficult and has competing readings involving waiting/attendant status. This draft is high-priority for philological review.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

九四：归妹愆期，迟归有时。

Nine in the Fourth: the marrying maiden misses the appointed time. Delayed marriage has its time.

The marriage formula reflects an ancient gendered social institution. It is preserved historically and must not be presented as a modern rule for relationships or marriage timing.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：帝乙归妹，其君之袂，不如其娣之袂良，月几望，吉。

Six in the Fifth: Di Yi gives his younger sister in marriage. The princess’s sleeves are not as fine as the sleeves of her younger attendant. The moon is nearly full. Auspicious.

君 and 娣 encode hierarchical marriage roles; the draft stays historical rather than modernizing them.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：女承筐无实，士刲羊无血，无攸利。

Top Six: the woman holds a basket with nothing in it; the man slaughters a sheep with no blood. Nothing is beneficial.

The ritual-marriage imagery is retained literally.

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zhouyi-54-line-6 · sha256:8fb634fb80576093d4f33fcecd0f8249fa4d7a1924b76c8d9ad4cab793ee480f

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of uneven union: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • • First read Marrying Maiden as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Marrying Maiden day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Marrying Maiden asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • • Which small step fits the timing?
  • • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “Marrying Maiden” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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