Hexagram 59: Dispersion風水渙 · Huàn

• Upper trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.
• Lower trigram　Kǎn, Water: danger, flow and keeping faith through difficulty.

The Judgment

Success. The king approaches his temple. It furthers to cross the great water. Perseverance furthers.

亨。王假有廟，利涉大川，利貞。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Wind over the water: dispersing and dissolving. Today suits dissolving the barriers in your heart, and gathering your scattered attention back together.

Something to do today

• Write down what has been distracting you, and set one of those things aside first.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.