Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 53: Development

Dispersion
Wind / Water
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind Wind
Lower TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

薛篾從靡,空无誰是。言季子明,樂減少解。

Bamboo strips and reeds scattered and limp; empty, with no one to affirm what is right. They speak of Ji Zi's clarity, but joy and music fade and dissolve.

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

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