Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 59: Dispersion

Limitation
Water / Lake
Dispersion
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle
Lower TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep

Yilin Verse

仲伯季叔,日暮寢寐。醉醒失明,喪其貝囊,臥拜道旁。

The four brothers, as evening falls, sink into drunken sleep. Sobering blind in darkness, their money-purse lost; they lie bowing by the roadside.

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

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