Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 59: Dispersion

Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Dispersion
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder WindThe Arousing → The Gentle
Lower TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep

Yilin Verse

忍醜少羞,無面有頭,滅耗寡虛,日以削銷。

Enduring disgrace with little shame; faceless yet with a head. Wasting and dwindling, meager and hollow -- day by day pared away.

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

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