渙 → 升
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
Line 3
六三 渙其躬。无悔。
Six in the third place means: He dissolves his self. No remorse.
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.
Line 6
上九 渙其血。去逖出。无咎。
Nine at the top means: He dissolves his blood. Departing, keeping at a distance, going out, Is without blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
生有陰孽，制家非陽，遂送還床。張氏易公，憂禍重凶。
Born under yin's shadow, the house is ruled not by yang; one is sent back to an empty bed. The Zhang family changes its master; worries compound into double disaster.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water exposes a household's hidden corruption. 'Born with yin-tainted karma, the household is ruled not by yang but by shadow' — feminine power usurps the proper order, and the rightful heir is sent back to his bed in shame. The verse then names the Zhang clan's reversal: a husband displaced, worries compounded into grave misfortune. This pattern of domestic inversion — yin dominating yang within the family — recurs throughout the Yilin as a warning against power in improper hands. Earth over wind creates the image of Pushing Upward — the steady, quiet ascent of what grows from below. From Dispersion to Pushing Upward, the irony is bitter: what rises here is not virtue but the accumulated disorder of a household whose foundations are rotten.
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