Hexagram 59, Huàn (Dispersion): Line 4
涣卦六四 · 风水涣 · 中文版
六四：涣其群，元吉。涣有丘，匪夷所思。
The line (Legge)
The fourth SIX, divided, shows its subject scattering the (different) parties (in the state); which leads to great good fortune. From the dispersion (he collects again good men standing out, a crowd) like a mound, which is what ordinary men would not have thought of.
Small Image commentary
'He scatters the (different) parties (in the state), and there is great good fortune:' - brilliant and great (are his virtue and service).
象曰：涣其群元吉，光大也。
In plain words
Dispersing one's faction: supreme good fortune. Dispersing the small groups gathers a crowd like a hill: this is not what ordinary people would think of. The Chinese idiom for the unimaginable comes from this line. The fourth line is yielding and correct, serves the fifth, and breaks up cliques so that everyone turns to the common good. The Small Image calls this bright and great.
Applying it to your situation
If you are inside a small circle, this line suggests breaking it open can gather greater strength. Which small circle ought to be opened?
Position
A broken (yin) line in the fourth place, which is a yin (even) place, so it is in its proper place. Its partner is line 1; both are yin, so they do not respond.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Huàn changes into Hexagram 6 Sòng (Conflict). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·涣之讼.
A recorded case from Takashima
Huan to Song: was she on the ship that was wrecked?: Ōura O-Kei, a woman merchant of Nagasaki, was due home on the ship Nagoya, when news came that the Nagoya had been wrecked off Suō. Her family wired Takashima. Not knowing whether she had boarded, he cast and got the fourth line of Huan, "scattering the crowd; on the hill; beyond ordinary thought", and judged that she was safe. The family were unsure, until a telegram from Ōura said she had escaped.
The hexagram
Hexagram 59 Huàn (Dispersion). The Judgment: Huan intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and success. The king goes to his ancestral temple; and it will be advantageous to cross the great stream. It will be advantageous to be firm and correct.
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English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.