渙 → 革
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 49: Revolution
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
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.
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 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
雌鸑生雛，祥異興起。束雲龍騰，民戴為父。
The female phoenix raises her young; auspicious anomalies arise. Gathering clouds, the dragon ascends; the people revere him as their father.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water scatters the old world to make way for a new reign. A female phoenix hatches her brood — an auspicious portent that inaugurates transformation. Clouds gather, a dragon ascends, and the people revere their new sovereign as a father. The phoenix chick and rising dragon are classical omens of dynastic founding, signs that heaven has chosen a new mandate. The lake containing fire within creates the image of Revolution — the seasonal turn that makes old loyalties obsolete. From Dispersion to Revolution, the verse traces the arc of legitimate overthrow: the scattering of the old order is not chaos but the birth pangs of revolutionary renewal. The phoenix does not create the mandate; it confirms that heaven's decision is already made.
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