訟 → 渙
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
九四 不克訟。復即命。渝安貞。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: One cannot engage in conflict. One turns back and submits to fate, Changes one's attitude, And finds peace in perseverance. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
機杼紛擾，女功不成。長妹許嫁，衣無襦袴。聞禍不成，凶惡消去。
Loom and shuttle in disarray; women's work unfinished. The eldest sister is betrothed; her garments lack skirts and trousers. Word of disaster does not come to pass; the evil dissolves.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, and the loom is tangled. The weavers' work fails; the elder sister is betrothed but has no trousers or jacket for her trousseau. Disaster threatens but does not materialize — the evil disperses of its own accord. The verse layers domestic dysfunction upon itself: first the economic failure (ruined weaving), then the social humiliation (a bride without proper garments), then the unexpected reprieve. From Conflict to Dispersion, wind blows across the water, scattering what has accumulated. Huan's image is the ancestral temple sacrifice that reunifies what has been scattered. The verse follows this arc: entanglement, shame, and fear accumulate — then wind over water disperses them. Relief comes not from resolution but from dissolution.
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