解 → 泰
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
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 4
九四 解而拇。朋至斯孚。
Nine in the fourth place means: Deliver yourself from your great toe. Then the companion comes, And him you can trust.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
陽衰伏匿，陰淫為賊。賴幸王孫，遂至喜國。
Yang weakens, hidden and eclipsed; yin runs rampant as a thief. Fortunate through the royal scion, one reaches at last the land of joy.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water releases into the grand communion of heaven and earth meeting. Yang wanes and hides; yin grows dominant and turns destructive. Yet through the fortune of a 'prince' — a noble ally — one reaches the land of joy at last. The verse describes a period when dark forces prevail and the righteous are suppressed, but a timely rescue intervenes. From Deliverance to Peace, the transformation is the most hopeful in the I-Ching: heaven descends and earth rises, their energies mingling freely. The thunderstorm's release becomes cosmic harmony, but only because someone intervened at the critical moment when yin threatened to overwhelm all light.
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