蠱 → 渙
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Line 3
九三 幹父之蠱。小有悔。无大咎。
Nine in the third place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. There will be a little remorse. No great blame.
Line 5
六五 幹父之蠱。用譽。
Six in the fifth place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. One meets with praise.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
紫芝朱草，與仙為侶；公尸侑食，福祿來下。
Purple lingzhi and vermillion herb, companion to the immortals; the ancestral spirit savors the offering -- fortune and blessing descend from above.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain encounters the sacred, and the transformation scatters as wind over water — the centrifugal Dispersion of Huan. Purple lingzhi and vermilion grass grow as companions to the immortals. The personator of the ancestor receives offerings; blessings and fortune descend from above. The rare fungi and herbs signal a realm of spiritual purity — the pharmacopoeia of the Daoist immortals. The ritual personator (公尸) embodies the ancestor during sacrifice, receiving food on their behalf. From Work on the Decayed to Dispersion, the accumulated corruption is scattered by sacred wind. Wind over water disperses what has clotted and stagnated; the former kings established temples and offered sacrifice to the supreme deity precisely to break spiritual blockages and restore cosmic flow.
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