渙 → 比
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 8: Holding Together
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).
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 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
行觸天罡，馬死車傷。身无聊賴，困窮乞糧。
Traveling one collides with the Tiangang star; the horse dies and the cart is wrecked. With nothing left to rely upon, destitute and begging for grain.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind scatters across water, and here the traveler collides with the celestial Great Bear — Tiangang, the cosmic obstacle. The horse dies, the carriage shatters, and the wanderer is left destitute, begging for grain with no one to lean on. This is dispersion at its most brutal: not gentle dissolution but violent collision with forces beyond human scale. Water resting upon earth forms the image of Holding Together — community, mutual support, the bonds that prevent isolation. From Dispersion to Holding Together, the transformation is bitterly ironic: the verse depicts exactly what happens when those bonds are absent. Without fellowship, the scattered individual breaks against the indifferent cosmos. The plea for grain is a plea for belonging.
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