Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 59: Dispersion

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Dispersion
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind Wind
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

畫龍頭頸,文章未成。甘言美語,說辭无名。

The tower is half-built, pillars not yet aligned. The poem is three lines in — the ink has dried. Empty promises scatter in the wind; the paper palace crumbles in the rain.

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

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