謙 → 解
Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
六二 鳴謙。貞吉。
Six in the second place means: Modesty that comes to expression. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 3
九三 勞謙君子。有終吉。
Nine in the third place means: A superior man of modesty and merit Carries things to conclusion. Good fortune.
Line 4
六四 无不利撝謙。
Six in the fourth place means: Nothing that would not further modesty In movement.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
蜩螗歡喜，草木嘉茂；百菓蕃熾，日益多有。
Cicadas chirp in delight; grass and trees flourish lush. Every fruit thrives and multiplies; growing more abundant by the day.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth holds the mountain, and now cicadas sing with joy, grasses and trees flourish luxuriantly, a hundred fruits ripen and multiply, growing more abundant by the day. The verse is pure celebration of natural vitality — summer at its peak, the world humming with life. From Modesty to Deliverance, thunder and rain burst forth together, the image of release after tension. Deliverance pardons transgressions and dissolves blockages; the rain that breaks the drought is the thunderstorm of liberation. The cicadas' exuberance and the ripening fruit embody the relief that follows Deliverance's thunderclap. Modesty's quiet earth has been gathering potential beneath the surface; when the storm breaks, everything it nourished erupts into joyful, teeming life.
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