睽 → 渙
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 悔亡。喪馬勿逐自復。見惡人。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: Remorse disappears. If you lose your horse, do not run after it; It will come back of its own accord. When you see evil people, Guard yourself against mistakes.
Line 4
九四 睽孤。遇元夫。交孚。厲无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Isolated through opposition, One meets a like-minded man With whom one can associate in good faith. Despite the danger, no blame.
Line 5
六五 悔亡。厥宗噬膚。往何咎。
Six in the fifth place means: Remorse disappears. The companion bites his way through the wrappings. If one goes to him, How could it be a mistake?
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
從風放火，艾芝俱死。三害集聚，十子患傷。
Following the wind, setting fire; wormwood and angelica alike perish. Three harms gather together; ten children are wounded and hurt.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and wind-driven fire destroys without discrimination. Mugwort and magical lingzhi alike perish in the blaze — the worthless and the precious burn together indiscriminately. Three calamities converge, and ten children are wounded and afflicted. The verse depicts catastrophe as radically egalitarian: fire does not sort the sacred from the common, the artemisia from the mushroom of immortality. When wind feeds flame, everything in its path is consumed regardless of value. From Opposition to Dispersion, wind sweeps across water, scattering what was gathered. The transformation from indiscriminate destruction to intentional dispersal suggests that dissolution can be either catastrophic or ritual — the ancient kings offered sacrifices and established temples to channel dispersive forces toward renewal rather than ruin.
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