Patient Waiting

The Marrying Maiden as a servant. Watching her hair grow. She reverses this and marries as a companion bride. You are in a subservient place. Have patience. In the end you will reverse things and gain the strategic position. You are confronting a troublesome past experience. Retreat to rekindle your love for people. This is a resting-place and a portent of future happiness. If you use force now you will only be entangled. You are coupled with a creative force.

六三, 歸妹以須, 反歸以娣.

The marrying maiden as a slave. ##### Comments She marries as a concubine. A girl who is in a lowly position and finds no husband may, in some circumstances, still win shelter as a concubine. This pictures the situation of a person who longs too much for joys that cannot be obtained in the usual way. He enters upon a situation not altogether compatible with self-esteem. Neither judgment nor warning is added to this line; it merely lays bare the actual situation, so that everyone may draw a lesson from it.