剝 → 渙
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 剝牀以辨。蔑貞凶。
Six in the second place means: The bed is split at the edge. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Line 3
六三 剝之无咎。
Six in the third place means: He splits with them. No blame.
Line 5
六五 貫魚。以宮人寵。无不利。
Six in the fifth place means: A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies. Everything acts to further.
Line 6
上九 碩果不食。君子得輿。小人剝廬。
Nine at the top means: There is a large fruit still uneaten. The superior man receives a carriage. The house of the inferior man is split apart.
Trigram Changes
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
Commentary
Mountain upon earth erodes into wind above water — Dispersion, where wind scatters what has congealed. Sitting they quarrel, standing they litigate, rushing and bustling without cease. The result is catastrophe and disorder, disaster reaching the head of the household. The verse describes an unbroken escalation: from seated argument to standing lawsuit to full-blown chaos, each stage more public and destructive than the last. The household patriarch is finally engulfed by the consequences. From Splitting Apart to Dispersion, the mountain's decay feeds the wind that scatters everything across the water. Dispersion's purpose is to dissolve rigid structures through gentle permeation — the king's offering at the temple, the gathering at the sacred site. But here what disperses is not ice but social bonds, and the scattering is not healing but ruinous. Quarrels breed lawsuits breed anarchy.
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