Standstill turns at its fourth line, and the text marks the turn by a change in what is possible rather than by any improvement in conditions. Legge's translation shows the subject acting in accordance with the ordination of Heaven and committing no error, with companions coming to share in the resulting happiness. The small commentary states the change directly: the purpose of the line's mind can now be carried into effect. Through the three yielding lines below, intention had nowhere to go. Here it does.
Firm in an even position at the base of the upper trigram Qian, the line is incorrectly placed by the letter of the rule, and the text answers that objection with the source of its authority. What justifies the action is not the correctness of the position but the mandate under which it is taken, which comes from above rather than from the line's own initiative. Acting on one's own account at this height, in this hexagram, would be premature; acting under commission is not.
The companions matter as much as the mandate. The first line's tangled grass roots showed capable people withdrawing together as the obstruction closed; the fourth shows them reassembling as it begins to open, drawn by an action that is legitimate rather than by any promise of advantage. Standstill has not ended at this line, and the text does not claim that it has. It records the first movement the closure can no longer prevent.