Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 54 歸妹 Guī Mèi, The Marrying Sister
  3. Line 2
54 歸妹, line 2

Line 2 九二 yang, undivided, of hexagram 54 歸妹 Guī Mèi

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

眇能視，利幽人之貞。

miǎo néng shì, lì yōu rén zhī zhēn.

The second line, undivided, shows her blind of one eye, and yet able to see. There will be advantage in her maintaining the firm correctness of a solitary widow. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

利幽人之貞，未變常也。

lì yōu rén zhī zhēn, wèi biàn cháng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10647182); the text is public domain, the site's edits CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI, Oxford 1882 (public domain).
  • Pinyin: Unihan (Unicode License v3) with this site's readings for the classical cases.