Xie, nine in the fourth placeHexagram 40, line 4 · Xie (Release) · changing to 7

The line

The Image commentary on this line

解而拇，未當位也。

"Release your big toe": it is not yet in its proper place.

The small Image commentary is the earliest explanation of the line texts. It usually explains a line from its position: where it stands, whether it holds the center, and which line answers it.

Verdict

吉Favorable. The text gives no verdict, but the picture it paints is a hopeful one. Act the way it describes and there will be something to gain.

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Asking about work, love or money

Work

The person or connection clinging to you and holding you back needs to be cut off firmly. Once it is cleanly cut, people who truly share your goals will come, and they will trust you.

Love

Cut the ties cleanly with anyone you should no longer be tangled up with. While old entanglements still cling to you, the person you really ought to cherish can't get close to you, or trust you.

Money

Relationships that drag you down and keep making you pay to clean up messes should be cut off. Once you have shaken those messes off, dependable partners will feel safe working with you.

This is how to read it when this is the only changing line. With several changing lines, first see which text governs; for the hexagram as a whole, see Xie.

Line position

A yang line in a yin place: it is not in its proper place. Its partner is the first line, which is its opposite, so the two answer each other.

Fourth place: next to the ruler, a place of caution. Serve those above with care.

Proper place, center and correspondence explained →

When you get this line

If this is the only changing line in your cast (three backs, old yang), this line is your answer. The primary hexagram is Xie (Release); when this line changes it becomes Shi (The Army): hexagram 40 changing to 7.

Which text to read with several changing lines →