渙 → 家人
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
翕翕䡘䡘，稍崩墜顛，滅其令名。
Swaying and tottering, gradually crumbling and falling; its good name is destroyed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water scatters reputation to dust. The verse opens with an onomatopoeic cluster — xixi, huhu — suggesting frenzied, chaotic activity. Things crumble and collapse in a rush, and a once-fine name is extinguished. The imagery is of someone whose frenetic striving accelerates their own downfall: the more they scramble, the faster the edifice breaks apart. Wind emerging from fire creates the image of the Family — words that carry substance, actions that maintain constancy. From Dispersion to the Family, the verse is a sharp negative lesson: when the household's inner discipline dissolves into frantic scrambling, even a sterling reputation scatters beyond recovery. The Family demands measured speech and steady conduct; the verse shows what happens in their absence.
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