解 → 賁
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
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 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.
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
經棘正冠，意盈不廉。桀紂迷惑，讒佞傷賢，使國亂煩。
Passing through thorns to straighten his cap, full of desire and lacking restraint. Jie and Zhou, lost in delusion; slanderers and flatterers harm the worthy, throwing the state into turmoil.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water dissolves into the mountain with fire at its base — the outward adornment of Grace. Walking through thorns while adjusting one's cap — the classic proverb warns against inviting suspicion through careless posture. Here the meaning deepens: self-satisfaction and greed masquerade as propriety. Jie and Zhou, the archetypal tyrants, were deluded by flattery; slanderers harmed the worthy, and the state fell into chaos. From Deliverance to Grace, the freed person mistakes surface decoration for substance. Fire beneath the mountain illuminates only the exterior while darkness grows within. When the cap is straightened amid thorns, one's hands are in the wrong place entirely.
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