解 → 否
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 田獲三狐。得黃矢。貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: One kills three foxes in the field And receives a yellow arrow. Perseverance brings good fortune.
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
入山求玉，不見和璞。終日至暮，勞无所得。
Entering the mountain to seek jade, one does not find the He stone. From morning until dusk the whole day through, toiling without reward.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water releases into the stagnation of heaven and earth severed. One enters the mountain seeking jade but never finds the He jade — the fabled rough stone that Bian He presented three times before its inner treasure was recognized. Laboring from dawn to dusk, one returns with nothing. The He jade allusion deepens the futility: even a real treasure might be present, but without the discernment to see through its rough exterior, the search is hopeless. From Deliverance to Standstill, the storm clears but heaven and earth cease to communicate. Freedom from one trap leads to the isolation of fruitless seeking — effort without connection to the source of value.
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