Your I Ching Card

HEXAGRAM

44

BRIDE

Sometimes known as Coupling or Coming To Meet, this I Ching hexagram is about someone or something new and powerful, changing your life. Like your future wife, in fact. Or a man who can make you a future bride. Of course we have to be realists and understand that marriages fail. Society has a high divorce rate. So the commitment needs to be analysed very carefully as does the person who is committing. A bride at the altar can be a powerful and persuasive thing. It is very hard to walk away or not turn up. A message about appearances and charm also comes with this hexagram. Beauty and grace are not enough. There has to be more, if you are going to wed yourself to a situation or person, or offer your ‘hand’ in a commitment. People talk about being married to the firm, or married to the job. What is the nature of the vows being made and is there absolute certainty about the chemistry? Marry in haste, repent at leisure is a well-known maxim. What’s the deal, here? It may be very good, built to last and so on, but every bride has to know as much as she can – as does every groom. Diana Spencer did not. This symbol is of course modern and can refer to two men, or two women, literally marrying. It’s very much about society, structure and the reality of it all.

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