賁 → 渙
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).
Line 1
初九 賁其趾。舍車而徒。
Nine at the beginning means: He lends grace to his toes, leaves the carriage, and walks.
Line 2
六二 賁其須。
Six in the second place means: Lends grace to the beard on his chin.
Line 3
九三 賁如濡如。永貞吉。
Nine in the third place means: Graceful and moist. Constant perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 5
六五 賁于丘園。束帛戔戔。吝。終吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Grace in the hills and gardens. The roll of silk is meager and small. Humiliation, but in the end good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
火石相得，乾無潤澤。利少囊縮，秪益促迫。
Fire and stone meet together; dry, without moisture or nourishment. Profit is scarce, the purse shrinks; it only adds to urgency and pressure.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain strikes flint and finds no moisture. Fire and stone meet — they are well-matched — but together they produce only arid heat. Profits shrink as the purse tightens, and the pressure only intensifies. The flint-fire combination is efficient but sterile: it generates sparks without nourishment, heat without sustenance. From Grace to Dispersion, fire beneath the mountain transforms into wind moving across water. Dispersion (Huan) is the principle of scattering accumulated tension — wind dispersing the frozen surface of water. The verse's problem is the opposite: too much friction, too little flow. The fire-stone combination needs what Dispersion provides — the loosening wind, the dissolving water — to break the cycle of shrinking returns and mounting constriction.
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