解 → 晉
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 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 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
異國他土，出良駿馬。去如奔䖟，害不能傷。
From a distant foreign land comes a fine and spirited horse. It departs swift as a flying wasp; no harm can touch it.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water shines forth as fire rising above the earth — the steady advance of Progress. From a foreign land comes a fine steed, swift as a galloping horsefly, so fast that harm cannot touch it. The verse celebrates the rare find: talent or treasure arriving from an unexpected quarter, and its speed rendering danger irrelevant. From Deliverance to Progress, the thunderstorm gives way to the sun emerging above the horizon. The gentleman makes his own virtue shine, and what arrives from distant territory is not threat but gift. Liberation becomes forward momentum when one recognizes that speed itself is a form of protection.
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