Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 59: Dispersion

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Dispersion
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven WindThe Creative → The Gentle
Lower TrigramHeaven WaterThe Creative → The Deep

Yilin Verse

跛踦相隨,日暮牛罷。陵遲後旅,失利亡雌。

Lame and limping, following each other; as day fades, the ox is spent. Falling behind the company; losing profit, losing the mate.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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