艮 → 渙
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
Line 2
六二 艮其腓。不拯其隨。其心不快。
Six in the second place means: Keeping his calves still. He cannot rescue him whom he follows. His heart is not glad.
Line 3
九三 艮其限。列其夤。厲熏心。
Nine in the third place means: Keeping his hips still. Making his sacrum stiff. Dangerous. The heart suffocates.
Line 5
六五 艮其輔。言有序。悔亡。
Six in the fifth place means: Keeping his jaws still. The words have order. Remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
齊東郭廬，嫁於洛都。驪婦美好，利得過倍。
From Dongguo Lu in Qi, married off to the capital of Luo. The beautiful Li bride, fine and lovely; profit gained is doubled and more.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still as a woman from Qi's eastern suburb marries into the capital at Luo. The beautiful bride brings profit doubled beyond expectation. The verse celebrates a marriage that crosses regional boundaries — a Qi woman going west to the Zhou capital, her beauty and dowry enriching both households. The name 'Dongguo Lu' (東郭廬) suggests a specific neighborhood of Qi, while Luo is Luoyang, the eastern Zhou capital. From Keeping Still to Dispersion, mountain yields to wind above water. Dispersion scatters what was gathered, but here the scattering is beneficent: the bride disperses from her mountain home, and her movement across water and wind carries prosperity to a new place. Stillness releases its treasure through a well-timed departure.
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