解 → 大過
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三身六齒，痛疾不已。齲病蠹缺，墮落其宅。
Three bodies and six teeth — the aching sickness never ceases. Cavities rot and worm through; the dwelling itself crumbles and falls.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water dissipates into the lake submerging the trees — the precarious excess of Great Exceeding. Three bodies and six teeth ache without cease; cavities and decay eat away at their dwelling, causing them to fall from their sockets. The verse uses the vivid image of rotting teeth as a metaphor for structural collapse. The 'dwelling' that crumbles is the jaw itself — the foundation that holds everything in place. From Deliverance to Great Exceeding, the release of pressure reveals that the structure was already rotten within. The lake overwhelms the trees; the ridgepole sags. What seemed like liberation was merely the moment when the last support gave way.
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