Hexagram 59 · line 6

Dispersion

渙Huàn

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

Line statement

上九

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.

Computed position

How this place works

Trigram position
outer · boundary

Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.

Polarity and place
yang in an even place: not aligned

Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.

Correspondence
Line 3: responsive

Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.

One line changes

Moving to 29 · The Abysmal (Water)