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Yi Jing · Chinese tarot

Dispersion

Hexagram 59 of the Yi Jing · Huàn

The figure

Wind above Water: the breath passing over the water and scattering it, the ice melting. The image of dissolution, of what comes undone and spreads.

What this figure illuminates

Dispersion lights up the moments when rigidities must be undone, when what had hardened must be dissolved — a block, a grudge, a withdrawal. To disperse is not to lose: it is to free what was held.

For a decision, the figure invites you to loosen: “what has hardened in me or around me, that I'd gain by letting melt rather than defending?”.

A question to keep

What has hardened that you'd gain by letting melt?

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