Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

Dispersion
Wind / Water
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

敝笱在梁,魴逸不禁。漁父勞苦,筐筥乾口,空虛无有。

The worn trap sits on the weir; the bream escape, unbounded. The fisherman toils in vain; baskets and pails dry empty, nothing within.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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