蒙 → 解
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
Line 4
六四 困蒙。吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Entangled folly bring humiliation.
Line 6
上九 擊蒙。不利為寇。利禦寇。
Nine at the top means: In punishing folly It does not further one To commit transgressions. The only thing that furthers Is to prevent transgressions.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
望鷄得雉，冀馬獲駒。大德生少，有瘳從居。
Hoping for a chicken, one gets a pheasant; wishing for a horse, one obtains a colt. Great virtue begets the young; there is healing, and one settles in comfort.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain yields unexpected bounty. One hopes for a chicken but gets a pheasant; one wishes for a horse but obtains a colt. The elder begets a child; illness finds its cure through the comfort of home. Every outcome exceeds or transforms the original expectation — not by delivering what was sought, but by providing something better or more vital. From Youthful Folly to Deliverance, the transformation captures the moment when obstruction breaks. Thunder and rain act together, and the gentleman pardons faults. The naif who expected little discovers abundance in a different form. Deliverance does not always look like the solution one imagined; sometimes the colt that arrives unsought carries one further than the horse one planned to buy.
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