Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 7: The Army

Dispersion
Wind / Water
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater Water

Yilin Verse

安息康居,異國穹廬。非吾習俗,使我心憂。

Yellow desert sand stretches without end; in round tents among cattle and sheep, no one marks the autumn. Foreign food is strange and harsh — in dreams I still hear the bells of my homeland.

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

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