Unified Pattern — Bases — YANG mutant, hexagram 11 (Gui Mei, The Marrying Maiden — King Wen no. 54)
One of 256 distinct Unified Patterns — a 12×12 Jacquard construction where every cell's colour is read off a single hexagram of the Yi King, hexagram Gui Mei, The Marrying Maiden. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Bases — YANG mutant, one of the 8 admissible families (out of 15) in the system's classification — see the lexicon for how families are built and admitted.
The pattern's three colour classes, set independently — change one, the other two stay put.
One tint, read in light and dark — a luminance reading, not three colours with two greyed out.
Reading the cell, line by line
The 144 cells of the 12×12 cell fall into six levels of 24 cells, one per line of the hexagram. Where the line is solid (yang), the level takes its colours from the family's YANG grid; where it is broken (yin), from its YANG mutant grid. Count of each colour, level by level:
| Level | Line | Grid read | Colour 1 (violet) | Colour 2 (magenta) | Colour 3 (orange) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 2 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 6 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Whole cell | 48 | 48 | 48 | ||
The three colours are exactly balanced: 48 cells each. The cell has every symmetry of the square: both axes, the diagonal, the quarter turn and the half turn.
Hexagram 11 (King Wen no. 54) — The Marrying Maiden
Upper trigram ☳ Zhen (The Arousing, Thunder); lower trigram ☱ Dui (The Joyous, the Lake).
Image
Above, Thunder; below, the Lake: the image of the marrying maiden. The movement above draws what rests below into a union not always equally chosen by both parties — a bond that commits despite the initial imbalance. Thus the noble one, mindful of what endures, discerns what corrupts this union: every alliance deserves to be judged over its duration, not on its beginning alone.
Judgement — Alliance
The sealed union binds two unequal orders into a single weave. Not every union is born in perfect equality; some begin in imbalance and must, over time, find their own justice. This line teaches that loyalty over time can repair what the initial conditions had not made fair.
The full hexagram page: the six lines, its magic square and the other patterns built on it.
Same shape, other colourings
Two involutions leave this motif's shape unchanged and only permute its three tints — verified across every family and every hexagram in the corpus, not just this one: swapping the pairing used to read the hexagram (YANG/YANG-mutant ↔ YIN/YIN-mutant), and taking the hexagram's binary complement (63 − 11 = 52). Toggle them below; the tiling never changes, only the colours do.
The grid itself
The 12×12 layer map and the three colour grids above, in the raw data — human-readable, and machine-readable as JSON.
Show the data
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Neighbouring motifs
The previous and next hexagram within the same family, Bases — YANG mutant.
