渙 → 恆
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 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 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.
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
宮商角徵，五音和起。君臣父子，弟順有序。唐虞襲德，國无災咎。
Gong, shang, jue, zhi, and yu, the five tones rise in harmony. Ruler and minister, father and son, younger brothers follow in proper order. Tang and Yu passed down their virtue; the state knows no disaster or fault.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water disperses dissonance into harmony. The five tones — gong, shang, jiao, zhi, yu — rise together in accord. Rulers and ministers, fathers and sons, younger brothers yielding to their elders: all find their place in proper sequence. The verse then invokes the reigns of Yao and Shun, when virtue passed seamlessly from sovereign to sovereign and the realm knew no calamity. Thunder and wind together create the image of Duration — the enduring interplay of arousing and penetrating forces. From Dispersion to Duration, the scattering of discord reveals an underlying order that was always present. The five tones harmonize not by merging into one but by each holding its own pitch in relation to the others — Duration's secret is unity through differentiated constancy.
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