Hexagram 40 · line 6
Deliverance
解Xiè
The duke shoots a falcon perched on a high wall and takes it. Favorable in every respect.
Line statement
上六
公用射隼于高墉之上，獲之，无不利。
The duke shoots a falcon perched on a high wall and takes it. Favorable in every respect.
The falcon is on the high wall at Line 6; the duke’s shot reaches that difficult target. Changing the yielding top to firm turns Thunder into Fire and produces Hexagram 64, Fire above Water.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes