渙 → 大過
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Line 3
六三 渙其躬。无悔。
Six in the third place means: He dissolves his self. No remorse.
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.
Line 6
上九 渙其血。去逖出。无咎。
Nine at the top means: He dissolves his blood. Departing, keeping at a distance, going out, Is without blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
旦生夕死，名曰嬰鬼，不可得視。
Foam appears and vanishes, following waves without staying. Flowers on the water surface — grasp them and they become nothing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water scatters the most ephemeral of forms. The original verse speaks of what is born at dawn and dies by dusk — the 'infant ghost,' a being too transient even to be seen. This captures the extreme of impermanence: not merely fragile but essentially illusory, gone before it can be grasped. The lake submerging the trees below creates the image of Great Exceeding — the ridgepole bowed past its limit, the extraordinary moment that cannot be sustained. From Dispersion to Great Exceeding, the verse warns that some things disperse not gradually but instantly, their existence always already past. The infant ghost is Great Exceeding's ultimate expression: a weight of meaning that the structure of time cannot bear even for a single day.
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