解 → 渙
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
Line 4
九四 解而拇。朋至斯孚。
Nine in the fourth place means: Deliver yourself from your great toe. Then the companion comes, And him you can trust.
Line 5
六五 君子維有解。吉。有孚于小人。
Six in the fifth place means: If only the superior man can deliver himself, It brings good fortune. Thus he proves to inferior men that he is in earnest.
Line 6
上六 公用射隼于高墉之上。獲之无不利。
Six at the top means: The prince shoots at a hawk on a high wall. He kills it. Everything serves to further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
春草萌生，萬物敷榮。陰陽和調，國樂无憂。
Spring grass sprouts and grows; the ten thousand things spread in glory. Yin and yang are harmonized; the state is joyful, free of worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water disperses into wind over water — the scattering and renewal of Dispersion. Spring grasses sprout and grow; all things spread forth in splendor. Yin and yang are harmoniously balanced, and the state is joyful without sorrow. The verse celebrates the cosmic springtime when opposing forces reconcile and life flourishes universally. From Deliverance to Dispersion, the thunderstorm's energy dissipates not into loss but into the gentle spreading of vitality across the whole landscape. Wind over water: the ancient kings offered sacrifice and established temples. What disperses is not value but rigidity — the ice breaks, the waters flow, and what was frozen becomes fertile.
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