解 → 巽
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
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
發輗溫湯，過角宿房。宜時布和，无所不通。
Setting forth the carriage axle through warm springs, passing the lodges of Jiao and Fang. Spreading harmony in due season, nothing is barred from passage.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water gentles into doubled wind — the penetrating subtlety of the Gentle. Releasing the carriage pin and warming the bath, one passes through the stellar lodges of Horn and Chamber. Distributing harmony at the proper season, nothing is without passage. The verse blends practical imagery (loosening mechanisms, warming water) with celestial navigation (the lunar mansions Jiao and Fang, marking spring). When the season is right and the approach gentle, all channels open. From Deliverance to The Gentle, the thunderstorm's violent release refines into the quiet, persistent wind that enters everywhere. Force gives way to permeation; the decree issued gently reaches further than the one shouted.
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