Hexagram 59
Hexagram 59 (Dispersion) - Wind over Water - Dissolution, dispersing, sexuality, resolution/solution, making waves.Hexagram 59
59: Dispersion
渙 (huàn)
59: Dispersion
Themes / Alternate Names / StructureDissolution, dispersing, sexuality, resolution/solution, making waves
Wind over Water.
Hosts: Line 4 (Yin) & Line 5 (Yang)
Opposite Hexagram: 55 (Abundance)
Inverse Hexagram: 60 (Limitation)
Mutual Hexagram: 27 (Nourishment)
Wind Trigram
巽 xùnWind Trigram
Correspondences / Themes#5
1st daughter. Cat. Adult. Thighs. Southeast. Early Summer. Air.
The Gentle, to penetrate, dispersing, influence, subtle, adaptable, agreeable, flexible.
Water Trigram
坎 kǎnWater Trigram
Correspondences / Themes#6
2nd son. Pig. Fetal. Ears. Winter. North. Water. Rivers. The Sea.
The Abysmal, to risk, facing danger, difficult, emotional, the occult, the depths.
The principal line of the hexagram on which the central theme for divination focuses. In most (but not all) cases, the host resides in the second or fifth place (central places within their trigrams), of which the fifth place is most common. Some hexagrams have more than one hosts.
When a hexagram is written in reverse order (Line 6 becomes Line 1, Line 5 becomes Line 2, etc), an Inverse Hexagram is created.
A hexagram's opposite is the hexagram where each Yin line is Yang and vice versa. For example, hexagram 1 (The Creative, all Yang lines) and hexagram 2 (The Receptive, all Yin lines) are opposites.
A mutual hexagram is formed by the "mutual" trigrams formed by Lines 2/3/4 and Lines 3/4/5.
Line Change Detail
This image shows what “change hexagram” results when each line changes from yin to yang (or vice versa).
The 6 flip boxes below show the changing hexagram pair for each line in larger detail.
Line 1
Line 1
Line 2
Line 2
Line 3
Line 3
Line 4
Line 4
Line 5
Line 5
Line 6
Line 6