坤 → 渙
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 直方大。不習无不利。
Six in the second place means: Straight, square, great. Without purpose, Yet nothing remains unfurthered.
Line 5
六五 黃裳。元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: A yellow lower garment brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上六 龍戰于野。其血玄黃。
Six at the top means: Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
舉首望城，不見子貞，使我悔生。
Raising my head, I gaze toward the city; I do not see Zizhen. This makes me regret being alive.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth upon earth yields to wind above water — Dispersion. One raises one's head and gazes toward the city walls but cannot see Zi Zhen. This causes me to regret being alive. Wind upon water, the image of Huan, scatters what was gathered — dispersion, dissolution, the breaking apart of what held together. The verse is terse and desolate: a lover or friend gazes toward a fortified city where someone named Zi Zhen once dwelt, but sees no one. The absence is so devastating that life itself loses meaning. From the Receptive to Dispersion, the earth that once held everything together watches its connections dissolve. What Kun gathered, Huan scatters: the bond between two people disperses like wind on water, leaving only the ache of looking and not finding.
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