Dispersion

用拯馬壯，吉。

Use a strong horse for rescue. Favorable.

A strong horse serves the work of rescue at the start of dispersion. Changing Line 1 makes Lake below Wind, Hexagram 61. The comparison brings rescue alongside trust.

渙奔其机，悔亡。

Amid dispersal, one runs to a support. Regret disappears.

Amid dispersion, Line 2 runs toward a support and loses its regret. Its change makes Earth below Wind, Hexagram 20. Seeking support and taking a wider view are distinct responses that the two figures bring into comparison.

渙其躬，无悔。

Dispersing concern for oneself. No regret.

Traditional readings understand Line 3 as setting aside concern for oneself, with no regret. Its change makes Wind below Wind, Hexagram 57. Repeated influence offers a comparison with the relinquishing of private concern.

渙其群，元吉。渙有丘，匪夷所思。

Dispersing the group. Greatly favorable. Dispersal forms a mound, beyond ordinary expectation.

Line 4 disperses a faction while describing a greater gathering as a mound beyond ordinary expectation. Changing it makes Heaven above Water, Hexagram 6. The contrast with contention brings group attachment and competing claims into view.

渙汗其大號，渙王居，无咎。

The great proclamation spreads like sweat. The king's stores are dispersed. No fault.

The proclamation spreads like sweat, while the king’s accumulated stores are distributed. Line 5 joins public speech with material release. Its change makes Mountain above Water, Hexagram 4, adding the theme of incomplete understanding to the comparison.

渙其血，去逖出，无咎。

Dispelling bloodshed, departing and going far away. No fault.

Line 6 concerns the removal of bloodshed or injury and departure to a distance. Changing it makes Water above Water, Hexagram 29. The departure from harm can be compared with the image of repeated danger.