Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 59: Dispersion

The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Dispersion
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

虎飲欲食,見蝟而伏。禹通龍門,避咎除患,元醜以安。

The tiger, hungry and wanting to eat, sees the hedgehog and crouches low. Yu opened the Dragon Gate, averting disaster and removing affliction; thus the primal ugliness finds peace.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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