渙 → 震
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 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 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.
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
瘡瘍疥搔，孝婦不省。君多疣贅，四牡作去。
Sores, boils, and itching scabs; the filial wife cannot cure them. The lord has many warts and lumps; the four stallions are harnessed to depart.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water exposes festering ailments. Sores, scabies, and itching torment the body, but the dutiful wife pretends not to notice her husband's affliction — filial propriety sealing her lips. The lord is covered in warts and blemishes; finally, four horses are harnessed for departure. The body politic mirrors the diseased body: corruption ignored out of misplaced deference until the only option is flight. Doubled thunder creates the image of the Arousing — the shock that forces reckoning. From Dispersion to the Arousing, hidden disease is scattered into visibility by the wind, and the thunder's double strike demands immediate response. The departure by chariot is not retreat but the jolting recognition that what festered in silence can no longer be endured.
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