萃 → 渙
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 引吉无咎。孚乃利用禴。
Six in the second place means: Letting oneself be drawn Brings good fortune and remains blameless. If one is sincere, It furthers one to bring even a small offering.
Line 4
九四 大吉无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Great good fortune. No blame.
Line 6
上六 齎咨涕洟。无咎。
Six at the top means: Lamenting and sighing, floods of tears. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
祚加明德，與我周國。公劉文母，福流子孫。
Heaven's blessing descends on brilliant virtue, granting us the Zhou kingdom. Gongliu and the Cultured Mother; their fortune flows down to all descendants.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to wind above water, the dispersing clarity of Dispersion. Heaven's blessing adds to their bright virtue, bestowing it upon our Zhou state. Duke Liu and King Wen's mother: their blessings flow down to all descendants. Duke Liu (Gong Liu) was the Zhou ancestor who led his people from Tai to Bin, restoring the agricultural legacy of Lord Millet. 'Wen Mu' refers to Tai Ren or Tai Si, the virtuous mothers of the Zhou royal line, whose moral cultivation shaped the dynasty's founders. From Gathering to Dispersion, the transformation is paradoxically constructive: the gathered virtue of ancestors disperses outward as blessing, like wind spreading across water. What one generation concentrates, the next distributes.
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