解 → 乾
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
Line 3
六三 負且乘。致寇至。貞吝。
Six in the third place means: If a man carries a burden on his back And nonetheless rides in a carriage, He thereby encourages robbers to draw near. Perseverance leads to humiliation.
Line 5
六五 君子維有解。吉。有孚于小人。
Six in the fifth place means: If only the superior man can deliver himself, It brings good fortune. Thus he proves to inferior men that he is in earnest.
Line 6
上六 公用射隼于高墉之上。獲之无不利。
Six at the top means: The prince shoots at a hawk on a high wall. He kills it. Everything serves to further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
大都之居，无物不具。抱布貿絲，所求必得。
Dwelling in the great capital, nothing lacks among its goods. Carrying cloth to trade for silk; what one seeks, one surely obtains.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water breaks the sky open, and deliverance floods in. The verse borrows from the Shijing's 'Mang' poem: 'Carrying cloth to trade for silk' — the suitor who comes with goods and leaves with a bride. Here, though, the image is of a great capital where nothing is lacking. Whatever you seek, you obtain. From Deliverance to the Creative, the transformation traces how the release of tension becomes self-generating momentum. The thunderstorm clears and heaven's tireless motion takes over: obstacles dissolve not into rest but into the creative drive that needs no external prompt. When the knot unties, initiative surges forward of its own accord.
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