䷺DispersionHuàn

The judgment

亨，王假有庙，利涉大川，利贞

Wind moves across water and the surface breaks into pieces that still travel together. Dissolving a block starts at the center, and a crowd scattered without a point does not reassemble.

The image

Wind scatters the surface of the lake and the water underneath stays whole. What looks broken at the top can still be one body.

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.

1. 初六Line 1

   用拯马壮，吉，悔亡

   At the start, your own strength is not enough; borrow a strong horse to pull you up and out of the danger, and the regret fades.

   Marked in the textauspiciousregret clears

2. 九二Line 2

   涣奔其机，悔亡

   Stuck in gridlock, release the support you have been gripping and turn toward the pivot that can actually hold you.

   Marked in the textregret clears

3. 六三Line 3

   涣其躬，无悔

   Here, shed the extra layer of identity you carry; lighter, you can continue—though for a while no one claims you.

   Marked in the textregret

4. 六四Line 4

   涣其群，元吉。涣有丘，匪夷所思

   Disperse from the tight circle; the familiar group scatters. What regathers rises into a mound, beyond what ordinary reckoning could imagine, and the old ties do not come back.

   Marked in the textauspicious

5. 九五Line 5

   涣汗其大号，涣王居，无咎

   Words are out and spreading, irretrievable; shift your footing from personal to steadier ground to hold the spread.

   Marked in the textno blame

6. 上九Line 6

   涣其血，去逖出，无咎

   The wound has drained; withdraw far enough that you stop looking back—the room here is distance, the cost is letting go.

   Marked in the textno blame

Where each changing line leads

Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.

• 初六→Inner TruthHexagram 61
• 九二→ContemplationHexagram 20
• 六三→The GentleHexagram 57
• 六四→ConflictHexagram 6
• 九五→Youthful FollyHexagram 4
• 上九→The AbyssHexagram 29