渙 → 大畜
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Line 1
初六 用拯馬壯吉。
Six at the beginning means: He brings help with the strength of a horse. Good fortune.
Line 3
六三 渙其躬。无悔。
Six in the third place means: He dissolves his self. No remorse.
Line 5
九五 渙汗其大號。渙。王居无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: His loud cries are as dissolving as sweat. Dissolution! A king abides without blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
飛不遠去，卑斯內侍，祿養未富。
The small bird on a low branch dares not fly. Inside the fence, circling three times. Eating the last few grains from the bowl — gazing up at the swan passing overhead, not daring to follow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind scatters over water, and here the original verse speaks of a small bird that cannot fly far, confined to low service, its salary meager and its status humble. It stays near the ground, tending duties beneath its potential. The bird gazes up but does not pursue what soars above. Heaven stored within the mountain creates the image of Great Taming — vast creative energy restrained and accumulated. From Dispersion to Great Taming, the verse captures the bitter early stage of that accumulation: talent dispersed into menial tasks, ambition scattered by circumstance. Yet Great Taming's lesson is that this very constraint is the accumulation. The small bird serving humbly is storing what it will one day need, even if the swan overhead seems impossibly distant.
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