渙 → 離
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 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 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 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
畏昏潛處，候時朗昭。卒逢白日，為世榮主。
Fearing dusk, one hides in the depths, awaiting the hour of brightness. At last meeting the white sun, he becomes the world's glorious lord.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind disperses the darkness over water, and here someone hides in fear during the twilight, waiting for the right moment to emerge. At last the bright sun breaks through, and the hidden one becomes the glorious lord of the age. This echoes the pattern of the sage-in-waiting — the Shun who farmed at Mount Li, the Fu Yue who labored at Fuyan — concealed until heaven's timing called them forth. Doubled fire creates the image of the Clinging — brilliance sustaining brilliance, light passed from torch to torch. From Dispersion to the Clinging, obscurity scatters like morning mist, revealing the radiance that was always present beneath. The one who waited in darkness does not create light; they simply stop hiding from it.
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