Hexagram 59 of 64 · King Wen order
渙Dispersion
Huàn · ䷺ · above: Wind ☴ 巽 Xùn · below: Water ☵ 坎 Kǎn
Breaking through rigidity and ego to reunite with a larger spiritual or social whole.A one-line gloss written for this site (AI-assisted). Everything below it is the classical text.
The Judgment 卦辭
亨。王假有廟，利涉大川，利貞。
Hwân intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and success. The king goes to his ancestral temple; and it will be advantageous to cross the great stream. It will be advantageous to be firm and correct.
James Legge, The Yî King (1882), the Text. Words in (parentheses) are Legge's own additions.
Commentary on the Judgment 彖傳 (Tuan, the first Wing)
1. 'Hwan intimates that there will be progress and success:'—(we see) the strong line (in the second place) of the lower trigram, and not suffering any extinction there; and (also) the weak line occupying its place in the outer trigram, and uniting (its action) with that of the line above.
2. 'The king goes to his ancestral temple:'—the king's (mind) is without any deflection.
3. 'It will be advantageous to cross the great stream:'—(the subject of the hexagram) rides in (a vessel of) wood (over water), and will do so with success.
The Image 象
風行水上，渙；先王以享于帝立廟。
(The trigram representing) water and that for wind moving above the water form Hwân. The ancient kings, in accordance with this, presented offerings to God and established the ancestral temple.
Legge's Great Image (Appendix II). The Chinese above also carries the Small Images of the six lines.
The six lines 爻辭
Read from the bottom (line 1) to the top (line 6). Each line: the Chinese, Legge's translation, and the Small Image commentary on it.
Line 1 初六
The first line from the bottom, yin (broken, six)
用拯馬壯，吉。
The first SIX, divided, shows its subject engaged in rescuing (from the impending evil) and having (the assistance of) a strong horse. There will be good fortune.
Small Image: 'The good fortune attached to the first six, divided),'is due to the natural course (pursued by its subject).
If this line changes, it becomes Hexagram 61, Inner Truth.
Line 2 九二
The second line from the bottom, yang (solid, nine)
渙奔其機，悔亡。
The second NINE, undivided, shows its subject, amid the dispersion, hurrying to his contrivance (for security). All occasion for repentance will disappear.
Small Image: 'Amidst the prevailing dispersion, he hurries to his contrivance (for security):'—he gets what he desires.
If this line changes, it becomes Hexagram 20, Contemplation.
Line 3 六三
The third line from the bottom, yin (broken, six)
渙其躬，無悔。
The third SIX, divided, shows its subject discarding any regard to his own person. There will be no occasion for repentance.
Small Image: 'He has no regard to his own person:'—his aim is directed to what is external to himself.
If this line changes, it becomes Hexagram 57, The Gentle.
Line 4 六四
The fourth line from the bottom, yin (broken, six)
渙其群，元吉。渙有丘，匪夷所思。
The fourth SIX, divided, shows its subject scattering the (different) parties (in the state); which leads to great good fortune. From the dispersion (he collects again good men standing out, a crowd) like a mound, which is what ordinary men would not have thought of.
Small Image: 'He scatters the (different) parties (in the state), and there is great good fortune:'—brilliant and great (are his virtue and service).
If this line changes, it becomes Hexagram 6, Conflict.
Line 5 九五
The fifth line from the bottom, yang (solid, nine)
渙汗其大號，渙王居，無咎。
The fifth NINE, undivided, shows its subject amidst the dispersion issuing his great announcements as the perspiration (flows from his body). He scatters abroad (also) the accumulations in the royal granaries. There will be no error.
Small Image: 'The accumulations of the royal (granaries) are dispersed, and there is no error:'—this is due to the correctness of the position.
If this line changes, it becomes Hexagram 4, Youthful Folly.
Line 6 上九
The sixth line from the bottom, yang (solid, nine)
渙其血，去逖出，無咎。
The topmost NINE, undivided, shows its subject disposing of (what may be called) its bloody wounds, and going and separating himself from its anxious fears. There will be no error.
Small Image: 'His bloody wounds are gone:'—he is far removed from the danger of injury.
If this line changes, it becomes Hexagram 29, The Abysmal.
Related hexagrams
lines 2-4 below, 3-5 aboveOpposite 錯卦55. Abundance 豐
every line changedInverse 綜卦60. Limitation 節
turned upside down
A hexagram is a mirror, not a command: read it to reflect, never to obey. Sources: James Legge (tr.), The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI (Oxford, 1882; 2nd ed. 1899), public domain; the Chinese text from Project Gutenberg ebook #25501 (易經), public domain. The trigram facts and the related hexagrams are computed from the line pattern. The gloss, selection and arrangement are CC-BY-SA-4.0 (PlayfulProcess). Data: github.com/PlayfulProcess/recursive-iching.