渙 → 頤
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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 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
大尾細腰，重不可搖。陰權制國，平子逐昭。
Great tail and slender waist; the weight cannot be moved. Yin power controls the state; Ping Zi drives out Duke Zhao.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water reveals imbalance. A creature with an enormous tail and slender waist is too heavy to move — the classic 'tail too large to wag' warning from the Zuo Zhuan. Yin power dominates the state, and the verse names the case directly: Jisun Pingzi expelled Duke Zhao of Lu around 517 BC. The duke fled to Qi and never recovered his throne. Mountain over thunder forms the image of Nourishment — careful attention to what one takes in and puts out. From Dispersion to Nourishment, the transformation warns that when authority disperses into the wrong hands, the body politic is fed poison. Duke Zhao's exile is the bitter consequence of nourishment inverted: the minister gorges while the ruler starves.
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