渙 → 小畜
Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 9: Small Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
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 3
六三 渙其躬。无悔。
Six in the third place means: He dissolves his self. No remorse.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
裸裎逐狐，為人觀笑。牝雞司晨，主作亂門。
Naked one chases the fox, becoming a spectacle for mockery. When the hen crows at dawn, the household falls to disorder.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over water scatters propriety itself. A man chases a fox while naked, becoming a spectacle of public ridicule. Then the verse invokes the classical warning from the Book of Documents: 'When the hen crows at dawn, the household is finished.' This is the image of inversion — authority held by those who should not wield it, dignity abandoned by those who should maintain it. Wind rides above heaven in Small Taming, gently restraining creative force through cultural refinement. From Dispersion to Small Taming, the verse warns that when dissolution goes unchecked, the gentle restraints of civilization collapse. The naked fox-chaser and the crowing hen are two faces of the same failure: the small accumulations of propriety, once dispersed, leave only absurdity.
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