渙 → 否
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
Line 2
九二 渙奔其机。悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: At the dissolution He hurries to that which supports him. Remorse disappears.
Line 4
六四 渙其羣元吉。渙有丘。匪夷所思。
Six in the fourth place means: He dissolves his bond with his group. Supreme good fortune. Dispersion leads in turn to accumulation. This is something that ordinary men do not think of.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
太微帝室，黃帝所直。藩屏周衛，不可得入。常安常存，終无禍患。
Taiwei, the Emperor's celestial chamber, where the Yellow Emperor resides. Screen walls and guards encircle it; none can enter there. Forever safe, forever enduring; in the end no disaster befalls.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind moves over water, yet here the verse looks skyward to the Supreme Palace enclosure — Taiwei, the celestial court where the Yellow Emperor presides among the stars. Screens and guards ring the astral throne; no intruder can penetrate. Enduring safety, perpetual existence, and freedom from calamity are assured. In Han astronomical thought, Taiwei represented the cosmic bureaucracy's inner sanctum, its stars mapping imperial governance onto the heavens. Heaven above earth, refusing to mingle, forms the image of Standstill — sealed separation as protection. From Dispersion to Standstill, the transformation reveals a paradox: sometimes the wisest response to scattering forces is to close the gates entirely. The celestial palace endures precisely because it admits nothing that might dissolve its order.
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