What this hexagram is about
Thunder and rain break forth together and the peril dissolves — the image of release from hardship. Once the trouble is loosed, it is well to ease and relax, to pardon small faults and set hearts at rest, rounding things off while the moment holds and leaving no aftertrouble.
The Judgment 卦辞
解，利西南。无所往，其来复吉。有攸往，夙吉。
The southwest is favorable. If there is nowhere left to go, returning brings good fortune. If there is still somewhere to go, set out early — good fortune.
The Image 大象传
《象》曰：雷雨作，解；君子以赦过宥罪。
Thunder and rain break forth, releasing; so the noble person pardons faults and is lenient with offenses.
Commentary on the Lines 小象传
刚柔之际，义无咎也。
At the meeting of firm and yielding — by what is right, there is no fault.
The Six Lines (hover over the figure above)
Nine at the top公用射隼于高墉之上，获之，无不利。
The duke shoots from the high wall at the hawk perched there and brings it down at a single stroke — nothing is unfavorable: rooting out the evil to the end, and at just the right moment.
Six in the fifth place君子维有解，吉，有孚于小人。
The noble person can cut himself decisively free of his entanglement with the small-minded — good fortune; and this brings the small-minded too to draw back, won over and submitting.
Six in the fourth place解而拇，朋至斯孚。
Loose the snare from between your toes — break off the unfit ties with the small-minded — and trustworthy friends will come.
Six in the third place负且乘，致寇至，贞吝。
To carry goods on one's back yet ride in a great carriage — the small-minded usurping high place and flaunting their wealth — draws robbers near; to keep to this brings regret.
Nine in the second place田获三狐，得黄矢，贞吉。
On the hunt one takes several foxes and gains the straight bronze arrows — clearing away the crooked and keeping one's conduct upright; hold to the right, and good fortune.
Initial Six无咎。
The hardship is just released; there is no fault — one should keep still and settle oneself.