Judgment
— I Ching · classical
利西南。无所往，其来复吉。有攸往，夙吉。
Deliverance. The southwest furthers. If there is no longer anything where one has to go, return brings good fortune. If there is still something where one has to go, hastening brings good fortune.
Image
— Great Image
雷雨作，解，君子以赦过宥罪。
Thunder and rain set in: the image of deliverance. Thus the superior person pardons mistakes and forgives misdeeds.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Initial Six · 初六
⚋ yin
无咎。
Without blame.
With the danger released, no fault attaches; the right moment for clemency.
Nine in the second · 九二
⚊ yang
田获三狐，得黄矢，贞吉。
One kills three foxes in the field and receives a yellow arrow. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Removes hidden traitors (foxes) cleanly; gains the central straight method (yellow arrow). Fortune.
Six in the third · 六三
⚋ yin
负且乘，致寇至，贞吝。
If a person carries a burden on their back and nonetheless rides in a carriage, they thereby attract robbers to draw near. Perseverance leads to humiliation.
Underqualified, riding in the master's carriage, parading wealth — invites bandits.
Nine in the fourth · 九四
⚊ yang
解而拇，朋至斯孚。
Deliver yourself from your great toe. Then the companion comes, and one can place confidence in them.
Sever the parasitic attachment (the literal little toe of dead relationships); the real friend arrives, and trust is possible.
Six in the fifth · 六五
⚋ yin
君子维有解，吉，有孚于小人。
If only the superior person can deliver themselves, it brings good fortune. Thus they prove to inferior people their sincerity.
Liberate yourself from the small-minded entanglements; doing so itself proves to them that liberation is real.
Six at the top · 上六
⚋ yin
公用射隼于高墉之上，获之，无不利。
The prince shoots at a hawk on a high wall. He kills it. Everything serves to further.
The high-walled hawk (the last persistent threat) shot down. All things now favorable.
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Crisis just resolved, debt just restructured, team just reorganized. No agenda? Rest. Have one? Move fast. Cleanse the opportunists who climbed during chaos.
Psychology & Cognition
Drop the past load. After a dispute resolves, adjust quickly, travel light, do not re-lick the wounds.
Decision Guidance
Cut the parasitic toe (line 4); kill the last hawk (line 6). After deliverance, pardon what should be pardoned; sever what should be severed.
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
Brené Brown on letting go of resentment; the surgical principle of debridement after wound-closure; Truth and Reconciliation paradigms (post-conflict); Marie Kondo's 'thank and release' applied to relationships and projects.
· All texts here come from public-domain editions of the I Ching and supporting commentary.
· Anygua does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· The same input via the same method will always reproduce the same hexagram — verifiable below.