Hexagram 59Dispersion (Dissolution)
Upper : Wind (Xun) - ☴Lower : Water (Kan) - ☵
"Dispersion. Success. The king approaches his temple. It is advantageous to cross the great waters. Perseverance is beneficial."
The Wind blows over the Water, lifting the mist and melting the ice of winter. What was hard, frozen, blocked (resentments, egotism) dissolves and disperses. It is the great thaw. To transcend human narrowness, one must dissolve the small self into something greater (religion, art, the temple). Once the barriers have melted, grand collective enterprises become possible.
"The wind blows over the water: the image of dispersion. Thus, the ancient kings offered sacrifices to the Lord and erected temples."
The sacred rituals have the psychological purpose of dispersing individual egocentrism to create communal fervor.
The dissolution of a rigid psychic complex. A trauma or a neurotic certainty formed a block of ice within your unconscious. A new spiritual energy (the Wind of the Self) comes to blow upon this ice. Accept the melting, accept to let your tears or old certainties flow. It is only by dispersing (by losing some of your rigidity) that you can join the great Ocean of life.
The increase of Entropy and the Phase Transition (Fusion or Sublimation). The system transitions from a solid state (crystal, ice, where molecules are trapped in a strict lattice) to a liquid or gaseous state. The input of energy disrupts local bonds to allow freedom of movement and integration with the environment.