Hexagram 40, Xiè (Deliverance): Line 6 (top)
解卦上六 · 雷水解 · 中文版
上六：公用射隼于高墉之上，获之，无不利。
The line (Legge)
In the sixth SIX, divided, we see a feudal prince (with his bow) shooting at a falcon on the top of a high wall, and hitting it. (The effect of his action) will be in every way advantageous.
Small Image commentary
'A prince with his bow shoots a falcon:' - thus he removes (the promoters of) rebellion.
象曰：公用射隼，以解悖也。
In plain words
The duke shoots a hawk on top of a high wall and hits it: nothing is unfavourable. The hawk stands for a defiant, troublesome person. The top line is at the end of deliverance, where the last and most stubborn obstacle is removed; the Great Commentary draws from it that the noble person keeps the tool at hand and acts when the time comes. The Small Image says this is to undo the defiance.
Applying it to your situation
If one last obstacle remains, this line suggests acting decisively once you are ready. Are you ready?
Position
A broken (yin) line in the top place, which is a yin (even) place, so it is in its proper place. Its partner is line 3; both are yin, so they do not respond.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Xiè changes into Hexagram 64 Wèi Jì (Before Completion). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·解之未济.
A recorded case from Takashima
Xie to Wei Ji: a cast before visiting a Zen master: Before visiting the Zen master Imakita Kōsen at Engaku-ji, Takashima wondered whether Zen and the Changes could meet, and cast. He drew the top line of Xie, "the duke shoots a hawk on the high wall", read the hawk as outer demons and the foxes of the second line as inner ones, and wrote a poem to take along. They talked over tea in the meditation hall, he showed the poem, and they parted laughing.
The hexagram
Hexagram 40 Xiè (Deliverance). The Judgment: In (the state indicated by) Jie advantage will be found in the south-west. If no (further) operations be called for, there will be good fortune in coming back (to the old conditions). If some operations be called for, there will be good fortune in the early conducting of them.
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English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.