解 → 臨
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 19: Approach
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
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
天孫帝子，與日月處。光榮於世，福祿繁祉。
The heavenly grandson, the emperors child, dwells alongside sun and moon. Radiant glory in the world; blessings, fortune, and abundant joy.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water opens into earth resting above the lake — the generous approach of authority. The heaven's grandchild, the emperor's child, dwells alongside the sun and moon. Radiant to the world, blessings and good fortune multiply without end. The 'heaven's grandchild and emperor's child' suggests a figure of supreme celestial lineage, an ideal ruler whose legitimacy is cosmic. From Deliverance to Approach, the release from obstruction allows benevolent power to descend. Earth over the lake: the ruler approaches his people with inexhaustible generosity, teaching without limit and sheltering without boundary. The storm has cleared, and what approaches now is royal grace itself.
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