解 → 家人
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 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 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
三女求夫，伺候山隅。不見復關，長思憂歎。
Three women seek a husband, waiting at the mountains edge. They do not see him return past the barrier; long is their longing and deep their sighs.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water dissolves into wind emerging from fire — the warmth and order of the Family. Three women seek husbands, waiting at the mountain's edge. They do not see the returning cart, and their longing turns to sighs. The verse echoes the Shijing's 'Mang' poem: 'Not seeing Fuguan' — the woman watches for the man's cart at the wall but it never appears. From Deliverance to The Family, the release from crisis confronts the longing for domestic belonging. Wind from fire: words must have substance, conduct must be constant. The women wait because the family they seek has not yet formed — deliverance without arrival, freedom without home.
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