渙 → 睽
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
折若蔽目，不見稚叔。三足孤烏，遠去家室。
Broken reeds cover the eyes; the young nephew cannot be seen. The three-legged crow, solitary, flies far from hearth and home.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water scatters sight itself. Broken branches block the eyes, and the traveler cannot see his young uncle. A three-legged solitary crow flies far from its nest and family. The sun-crow of mythology — normally a creature of blazing centrality — here limps away alone, its extra leg a deformity rather than a divine mark. Fire above the lake creates the image of Opposition: two forces that see each other but cannot merge. From Dispersion to Opposition, the verse dramatizes estrangement at its most painful. The broken sight-line and the departing crow are two images of the same condition — people who belong together but can neither see nor reach each other. Dispersion has made them strangers under the same sky.
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