The Master Therion I-Ching

Hexagram # 54

Hexagram 54. Kuei Mei 
The Marrying Maiden KWEI MEI

To give first younger daughters - ill course.
Don't start with the carriage in front of the horse.  

Go to it, ye cripples! I'll hold your crutches.  
Blind of an eye? Be as chaste as a duchess!  
Now, younger sisters there's scrubbing to do!  
Better postpone matrimonial clutches! a  
Think of Ti-Yi and his sistersb anew!  
No meat on the chops, and no beans in the stew.

  

     a matrimonial clutches: the grip of marriage.
    b Ti-Yi and his sisters: "... the elder brother (Chên) leading his younger sister to her husband."
 "We are dealing here with reminiscences of matriarchal times."
 (Wilhelm's translation The Commentaries p. 665.)

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