Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 59: Dispersion

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Dispersion
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

坐爭立訟,紛紛匆匆。卒成禍亂,災及家公。

Quarreling seated, litigating standing; in clamor and haste. At last it becomes upheaval and ruin; disaster reaches the master of the house.

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

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