大畜 → 渙
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Line 1
初九 有厲。利已。
Nine at the beginning means: Danger is at hand. It furthers one to desist.
Line 3
九三 良馬逐。利艱貞。曰閑輿衛。利有攸往。
Nine in the third place means. A good horse that follows others. Awareness of danger, With perseverance, furthers. Practice chariot driving and armed defense daily. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
Line 5
六五 豶豕之牙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The tusk of a gelded boar. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
視夜無明，不利遠鄉。閉門塞牖，福為我母。
Gazing into the night without light; not favorable for distant lands. Shut the door and bar the window; blessings serve as our guardian.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain becomes wind above water — Dispersion. One peers into the night but finds no light; travel to distant lands is inauspicious. Close the door and shut the window — this confinement is my protection. The verse counsels radical withdrawal: when visibility is zero and the outside world offers nothing, the wise response is to seal oneself in and wait. Dispersion scatters what was gathered; wind over water breaks up stagnation. But this verse resists dispersion, choosing enclosure over exposure. From Great Taming to Dispersion, the mountain's stored heaven encounters the dissolving wind. The verse advises that not all dispersion is desirable — sometimes the accumulated reserves are best protected by refusing to open the gate at all.
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