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40 · union and gathering

Deliverance

Deliverance comes when the knot can be untied, not hacked apart.

releasethunder after rainuntying knot

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

解:利西南,无所往,其来复吉。有攸往,夙吉。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Release: beneficial is the southwest. If there is nowhere to go, coming back and returning is auspicious. If there is somewhere to go, going early is auspicious.

夙 is read as early/prompt; directional formula remains historical rather than literal travel guidance.

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Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, COMMENTARY_CONTAMINATION_RISK

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Line 1 · 爻辭

初六:无咎。

Initial Six: no blame.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

九二:田获三狐,得黄矢,贞吉。

Nine in the Second: in the hunt, catching three foxes and obtaining a yellow arrow. Constancy is auspicious.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三:负且乘,致寇至,贞吝。

Six in the Third: carrying a burden while riding in a carriage brings bandits to arrive. Constancy: regret.

The incongruous status image is preserved; modern class commentary belongs outside translation.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

九四:解而拇,朋至斯孚。

Nine in the Fourth: release your big toe. Companions arrive, and then there is trust.

解而拇 is difficult; “release your big toe” follows the bodily sequence but remains high-priority review.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五:君子维有解,吉;有孚于小人。

Six in the Fifth: the noble person alone has release. Auspicious. There is trust shown toward the small person.

有孚于小人 is syntactically compact; the direction of trust is reviewable.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六:公用射隼,于高墉之上,获之,无不利。

Top Six: the duke uses an arrow to shoot a hawk on top of a high wall. He gets it. Nothing is unfavorable.

The duke and archery scene is historical source imagery. It is not modern instruction to use weapons or harm animals.

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Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

Tension begins to ease; there is a chance to relieve, release, complete.

Advice

Do not hold drama after the door opens. Take a simple step out.

Caution

Deliverance requires action: the knot does not always fall from the hands by itself.

How to read lines

  • First read Deliverance as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Deliverance day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Deliverance asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • What can be released without war?
  • Where has it already become easier?
  • What step completes the tension?

Small practice

  • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • Where does the theme of “Deliverance” appear in my situation?
  • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.