解 → 履
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
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
夫妻反目，不能正室。翁云于南，姬言還北。並后匹嫡，二政亂國。
Husband and wife glare at each other; the household cannot be set right. He says go south, she says return north. Two powers rival the throne; dual rule throws the state into chaos.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water dissolves into heaven treading above the lake — proper order must be maintained or chaos follows. Husband and wife turn against each other, unable to govern the household. The elder says south, the consort insists north. When a secondary wife is elevated to match the principal wife, and two rival authorities divide policy, the state descends into turmoil. The verse warns against the classic catastrophe of 'parallel empresses and matched consorts,' a phrase from political discourse about divided sovereignty. From Deliverance to Treading, freedom without hierarchy becomes anarchy. The lake must remain beneath heaven; when it rises to the same level, the tiger's tail is stepped upon.
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