Hexagram 40 · line 4
Deliverance
解Xiè
Release your big toe. Companions arrive, and with them comes trust.
Line statement
九四
解而拇，朋至斯孚。
Release your big toe. Companions arrive, and with them comes trust.
At Line 4, the toe is a bond to the first line that must be loosened before other companions can be trusted. This is the traditional relational reading of the body image. Changing Line 4 makes Earth above Water, Hexagram 7.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes