Hexagram 59 · line 4
Dispersion
渙Huàn
Dispersing the group. Greatly favorable. Dispersal forms a mound, beyond ordinary expectation.
Line statement
六四
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.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes