I Ching hexagram 54

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I Ching hexagram 54, depicted ||:|:: is named 歸妹 (gui1 mei4), Converting The Maiden. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, The Marrying Maiden; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Returning Maiden.

• Inner (lower) trigram is ☱ (||: 兌 dui4) Open = (澤) swamp
• Outer (upper) trigram is ☳ (|:: 震 zhen4) Shake = (雷) thunder
• The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With self-reflection (lake in lower) comes awareness (thunder in upper)"

I Ching hexagrams
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself

The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.

• The skeletal form of hexagram 54 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 64 where we have a generic focus on avoiding closure, on getting a sequence 'incorrect'. 54 as such reflects issues of immaturity (compared to its opposite, 53, that covers maturing). These issues can cover intentional immature acts but also those where circumstances force someone to have to 'grow up' very quickly; there is no 'fault' as such and within the skeletal form of 64 is a sense of trying to avoid closure, to remain 'open' and so use that to 'mature' in these immature contexts.