渙 → 遯
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 33: Retreat
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
季姬踟躕，望孟城隅。終日至暮，不見齊侯。
Lady Ji paces and hesitates, watching from the corner of Meng's wall. From dawn through the whole day until dusk; the Marquis of Qi does not appear.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water scatters hope across an unbridgeable distance. Lady Ji, youngest of her clan, paces back and forth, gazing toward the corner of the city wall at Meng. All day until dusk she watches, but the Lord of Qi never appears. This echoes the Shijing's 'Jingnu' tradition — the beloved waiting at the appointed place, the lover who fails to come. The verse's emotional weight lies in the persistence of her vigil: not a single glance but an entire day consumed by waiting. Heaven above the mountain creates the image of Retreat — the deliberate withdrawal of what is strong. From Dispersion to Retreat, Lady Ji's scattered hope meets the target hexagram's defining gesture: the one she awaits has already withdrawn, and her watching is the last act of a connection that is over.
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