渙 → 節
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 60: Limitation
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
天山紫芝，雍梁朱草。長生和氣，王以為寶。公尸宥食，福祿來處。
Purple fungus of the Celestial Mountains, crimson grass of Yong and Liang. The plants of long life and harmonious qi, the king treasures them. The ritual representative accepts the feast; blessing and prosperity come to abide.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind disperses over water, but here sacred plants gather on celestial mountains. Purple lingzhi mushrooms grow on heavenly peaks; vermilion grasses flourish near the capital. These are omens of cosmic health — the harmonious qi that generates longevity and blessing when heaven and earth are in accord. The verse invokes ritual feasting: the ancestral representative receives offerings, and fortune and emolument arrive as if drawn by natural gravity. Water above the lake creates the image of Limitation — the measured portion, the boundary that gives form to what would otherwise overflow. From Dispersion to Limitation, the transformation reveals that sacred abundance requires containers. The lingzhi and vermilion grass thrive not in endless wilderness but in measured, bounded mountain-sanctuaries where heaven's energy is concentrated rather than scattered.
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