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Hexagram 10 — Jie, Deliverance
Chronological no. 10 (binary-weight order) · King Wen no. (traditional) 40 · 解
By Anibal Edelberto Amiot — Updated October 1, 2026
the eldest son
the middle son
Thunder and Rain arise: the image of deliverance. The tension built up in the air is finally released, the storm breaks and purifies what it crosses — a resolution that soothes rather than destroys. This is the figure of relief after constraint. Thus the noble one forgives faults and shows clemency toward wrongs: true deliverance does not stop at oneself, it extends also to those still held captive by their own mistakes.
The knots of obstruction come loose, the passage opens. What seemed inextricable ends up, with time and the right tension released at the right moment, coming undone by itself. This line teaches that deliverance rarely comes by force — it comes when pressure finally finds its rightful outlet.
The six lines
At the base of the earth, emptiness closes over: what was still an opening begins to fill.
The steadied earth reaches its limit: the solidity that upheld the structure is about to change its nature.
At the threshold between earth and man, suppleness gathers weight: what once yielded by nature is about to harden.
In the action of man, fullness meets its limit: the initiative that led the figure folds back upon itself.
At the sage's seat, emptiness fills: the suppleness that governed with discretion gathers a new force.
At the summit, emptiness reaches its fullest extent and closes: the furthest opening turns toward its opposite.
Source: La Livrée d'Hermès, Anibal Amiot — chapter 7.1 (pp. 63–68). French version of this page.
For the notions used here — magic square, layer and casting, the Yi Jing — see the project lexicon.
The patterns of this hexagram
Eight 12×12 Jacquard patterns are generated from this hexagram, one for each admissible family of the system. Each has its own page: cell, tiling, recolourings and data.
Bases — YANG mutant
Bases — YANG
Pair of two — YANG + YIN mutant
Pair of two — YIN mutant + YANG mutant
Pair of two — YIN + YANG
Pair of two — YIN + YANG mutant
Triple — without YANG
Triple — without YANG mutant
Neighbouring hexagrams
9 — Zhen, The Arousing · 11 — Gui Mei, The Marrying Maiden
Hexagrams sharing a trigram
Same upper trigram (☳ Zhen): 8 — Yu, Enthusiasm · 9 — Zhen, The Arousing · 11 — Gui Mei, The Marrying Maiden · 12 — Xiao Guo, Preponderance of the Small · 13 — Feng, Abundance · 14 — Heng, Duration · 15 — Da Zhuang, The Power of the Great
Same lower trigram (☵ Kan): 2 — Shi, The Army · 18 — Kan, The Abysmal · 26 — Kun, Oppression · 34 — Meng, Youthful Folly · 42 — Wei Ji, Before Completion · 50 — Huan, Dispersion · 58 — Song, Conflict
