Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 48: The Well

Dispersion
Wind / Water
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

迷行失道,不得牛馬。百賈逃亡,市空无有。

Lost on the road, one loses the way, unable to find ox or horse. All merchants have fled and gone; the market stands empty, nothing remains.

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

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