解 → 睽
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
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
駕福乘喜，東至嘉國。戴慶南行，離我室居。
Harnessing fortune and riding joy, eastward to a blessed land. Bearing celebration southward, leaving behind my former dwelling.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water separates into fire above the lake — the divergent vision of Opposition. Harnessing good fortune and riding joy, one travels east to a blessed land. Bearing celebration southward, one departs from home. The verse moves in two contrary directions: eastward to abundance, southward away from one's dwelling. Joy is real but displacement accompanies it. From Deliverance to Opposition, fire and lake pull apart — one rises while the other sinks. The freed traveler discovers that every gain involves a departure, every arrival a farewell. Opposition does not negate the blessing; it reveals that movement toward one good necessarily moves away from another.
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