The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 59

What does I Ching hexagram 59, Dispersing, mean?

The judgment

渙：亨，王假有廟，利涉大川，利貞。Dispersing: success. The king comes to his temple. It pays to cross the great river, and it pays to hold firm.Zhou Yi 周易, 渙, judgment. Source

The image

風行水上，渙；先王以享于帝立廟。Wind moves over water. The old kings made offerings to the High God and built temples.Zhou Yi 周易, 渙, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初六：用拯馬壯，吉，悔亡。
2. Second line九二：渙奔其机，悔亡。
3. Third line六三：渙其躬，无悔。
4. Fourth line六四：渙其群，元吉。渙有丘，匪夷所思。
5. Fifth line九五：渙汗其大號，渙王居，无咎。
6. Top lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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