Dispersion
The Thawing Wind
Shared devotion thaws the self-interest that divides people; the same wind can scatter what it frees.
Hexagram 59 sets the trigram Xun, wind, above Kan, water. Wind moving over water scatters and dissolves it, and in the Wilhelm reading the mild winds of spring break up the ice that winter has hardened. The Judgement has the king approach his temple, and finds it furthering to cross the great water, wood floating on water making the image of a ship. The Image recalls that the kings of old sacrificed to the Lord and built temples, a common devotion being the means by which the egotism and mistrust that divide people are dissolved and the scattered are brought together once more.
Light
Signifies the breaking up of rigidity and estrangement, reconciliation after division, and the dissolving of the self-interest that keeps a community apart.
Shadow
Can indicate dissipation, the scattering of resources and attention, and alienation. It may mark the loss of whatever once held a group together, or flight from a bond rather than repair of it.
