The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 40
What does I Ching hexagram 40, Release, mean?
解Thunder 震 above
Water 坎 below
Hexagram 40 of the I Ching is Release (解), Thunder over Water. Its judgment opens “Release: the south-west pays.”
The judgment
解：利西南，无所往，其來復吉。有攸往，夙吉。Release: the south-west pays. With nowhere to go, coming back brings good fortune. With somewhere to go, going early brings good fortune.Zhou Yi 周易, 解, judgment. Source
The image
雷雨作，解；君子以赦過宥罪。Thunder and rain arise. The noble person pardons mistakes and forgives wrongs.Zhou Yi 周易, 解, image. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初六：无咎。
- Second line九二：田獲三狐，得黃矢，貞吉。
- Third line六三：負且乘，致寇至，貞吝。
- Fourth line九四：解而拇，朋至斯孚。
- Fifth line六五：君子惟有解，吉；有孚于小人。
- Top line上六：公用射隼，于高墉之上，獲之，无不利。
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