渙 → 晉
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
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 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
天子所予，福祿常在，不憂危殆。
What the Son of Heaven bestows, blessing and prosperity remain forever; one need not worry about peril.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind disperses over water, and here the Son of Heaven bestows blessings that endure. What the sovereign grants — fortune and emolument — remains permanently, freeing the recipient from all anxiety. This is the ideal of imperial grace: a bestowal so complete that worry itself is dispersed. Fire rising above the earth creates the image of Progress — the bright sun ascending, the worthy servant advancing under royal favor. From Dispersion to Progress, the transformation is direct: when the wind of heavenly grace scatters doubt and insecurity, the recipient shines forth unimpeded. The verse captures Progress at its purest — not striving upward but being illuminated from above, the sovereign's gift dissolving every shadow.
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