Hexagram 54 · The Marrying Maiden

征凶，无攸利。
归妹象征女子出嫁却名不正言不顺、寄人篱下。此时盲目前进必遭大凶，无任何好处。违反了正常婚嫁顺序，喻下位者僭越或采取非正规手段。
初九 归妹以娣，跛能履，征吉。
九二 眇能视，利幽人之贞。
六三 归妹以须，反归以娣。
九四 归妹愆期，迟归有时。
六五 帝乙归妹，其君之袂，不如其娣之袂良。月几望，吉。
上六 女承筐无实，士刲羊无血，无攸利。

征凶，无攸利。
Pressing forward under these conditions brings misfortune — there is nothing to be gained by it.
Initial Nine: Entering the marriage as a secondary wife, like someone lame who still manages to walk -- moving forward under these limits still brings good fortune.
Nine in the second: Like someone half-blind who still manages to see, staying quietly steady in a withdrawn position is what serves you here.
Six in the third: Marrying beneath her own standing, she ends up entering only as a secondary wife after all.
Nine in the fourth: The marriage is delayed past its expected date -- but a later match, arriving in its own time, is still coming.
Six in the fifth: When King Yi gave his own daughter in marriage, her own robes were plainer than her attendant's -- restraint even at the top. Like the moon just short of full, this brings good fortune.
Six at the top: The woman lifts a basket that turns out empty; the man cuts the sheep and draws no blood -- empty ritual, with nothing real behind it. Nothing here works in your favor.