Hexagram:Darkening of the Light Hexagram:Dispersion

I-Ching Transformation

36
Darkening of the Light
Ming Yi
Earth / Fire
59
Dispersion
Huan
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Line 1: 明夷于飛垂其翼君子于行三日不食有攸往主人有言

míngbrightness
obscured
in
fēiflight
chuílet drag
one
wing
jūnthe noble
young one
in
xíngpassing
sānis
days
without
shíeating
yǒuhaving
yōusomewhere
wǎngto go
zhǔ^(in) authority
rénthose
yǒuwill
yántalk

Line 2: 明夷夷于左股用拯馬壯吉

míngbrightness
obscured
and wounded
in
zuǒthe left
thigh
yòngbut use
zhěngrelief
the horse
zhuàngis strong
promising

Line 3: 明夷于南狩得其大首不可疾貞

míngbrightness
obscured
on
nánthe southern
shòuwinter hunt
finding
their
great
shǒuhead
this (is) no
an
a hasty
zhēnpersistence

Line 5: 箕子之明夷利貞

^(of) Ji (ancient Shang state)
the prince
zhīheld
míngbrightness
obscured
it is
zhēnto persist

Line 6: 不明晦初登于天後入于地

not
míngbrightness
huìbut darkness
chūat first
dēngto rise
into
tiānthe heavens
hòuand
to enter
into
the earth

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth Windreceptive to gentle
Lower TrigramFire Wateryin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

逐禍除患,道德神仙。遏惡萬里,福常在前,身樂以安。

Driving out calamity, banishing harm; the virtuous way of the divine immortal. Warding off evil for ten thousand miles; blessings ever go before. The body is at ease and at peace.

— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 36 (Darkening of the Light) to hexagram 59 (Dispersion). In the I-Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.