渙 → 既濟
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 63: After Completion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 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 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
鹿求其子，虎廬之里。唐伯季耳，貧不我許。
The deer seeks her fawn, in the very lair of the tiger. Tang Bo and Ji Er, in poverty, did not permit me.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water scatters the seeker through a dangerous landscape. A deer searches for its fawn in the tiger's territory — the most perilous of environments for the vulnerable. The verse then alludes to figures named Tang Bo and Ji Er — possibly minor lords or clan heads — who reject the seeker because of poverty. The deer's natural love drives it into the tiger's domain, just as desperate need drives the poor to seek aid from the unwilling. Water above fire creates the image of After Completion — everything in its proper place, the moment of perfect order. From Dispersion to After Completion, the verse's irony cuts deep: the deer and the pauper both seek completion — reunited family, material security — but the hostile terrain and cold refusal keep them scattered. After Completion exists as an ideal that the dispersed cannot reach.
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