渙 → 艮
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
羊頭兔足，羸瘦少肉。漏囊敗粟，利无所得。
Sheep head and rabbit feet, thin and weak with little meat. A leaking sack spills spoiled grain; there is no profit to be gained.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water strips away all pretense of adequacy. A sheep's head mounted on rabbit's legs — mismatched, scrawny, barely any meat on the bones. A leaking sack spills its spoiled grain, and no profit can be found anywhere. Every image is of insufficiency and misfit: things that should nourish but cannot, containers that should hold but leak. Doubled mountain creates the image of Keeping Still — the mind that does not reach beyond its proper sphere. From Dispersion to Keeping Still, the verse warns that dispersion has left nothing worth moving toward. The sheep-headed, rabbit-footed creature cannot walk properly; the leaking sack cannot carry. Stillness here is not choice but necessity — there is simply nothing left to pursue.
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