師 → 解
Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
六四 師左次。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The army retreats. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三德五才，和合四時。陰陽順序，國無咎災。
Three virtues and five talents; harmonizing the four seasons. Yin and yang in proper order; the state suffers no calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water hidden within the earth achieves cosmic balance, and three virtues with five talents harmonize the four seasons. Yin and yang follow their proper sequence, and the state suffers no disaster or blame. The verse describes ideal governance as cosmological calibration: the ruler aligns human institutions with natural rhythms so perfectly that misfortune simply cannot arise. From The Army to Deliverance, thunder and rain break forth as tensions dissolve. The army's stored order releases into the cleansing storm of forgiveness — pardoning mistakes, freeing the imprisoned, allowing new growth. Discipline maintained through the crisis gives way to the generosity of resolution.
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