否 → 渙
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
Line 2
六二 包承。小人吉。大人否。亨。
Six in the second place means: They bear and endure; This means good fortune for inferior people. The standstill serves to help the great man to attain success.
Line 4
九四 有命无咎。疇離祉。
Nine in the fourth place means: He who acts at the command of the highest Remains without blame. Those of like mind partake of the blessing.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
娶於姜女，駕迎新婦；少齊在門，夫子悅喜。
Marrying a lady of the Jiang house; the carriage drives to welcome the bride. The young lady of Qi stands at the gate; the husband is pleased and joyful.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and earth refuse to communicate, yet a marriage is arranged with a woman of the Jiang clan. The carriage is driven forth to welcome the new bride; the young woman of Qi arrives at the gate, and the husband rejoices. Marriages between the Ji (Zhou royal surname) and Jiang clans were the foundational political alliances of the Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn periods. From Standstill to Dispersion, Pi's blockage dissolves into wind moving over water — Huan's image of ice breaking apart as warmth returns. The wedding carriage crossing the threshold is the perfect emblem of dispersion's positive power: what was frozen and sealed opens through the arrival of new connection. The bride at the gate is the wind that scatters Pi's ice.
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