Great Taming ends in release. Legge's translation shows its subject in command of the firmament of heaven and promises progress, and after five positions of halting, stripping, training and restraining, the reversal is total. The way that was closed at the opening line stands open at the last, and the whole accumulated force of the lower trigram Qian finally has somewhere to go.
The position is unusual. A strong stroke stands at the very top in an even place, incorrect by the classical rule, at the summit of the restraining mountain Gen, and it is the one line in the hexagram where the mountain stops restraining anything. The tradition reads the image of heaven's open road as the natural consequence of everything below it: the passage is wide because the strength arriving at it has been stored rather than spent along the way.
Closing here is what makes the hexagram coherent. Its Judgment sends its subject into public service and across the great water, and none of that would follow from restraint alone. The four positions of holding exist for the sake of this one of releasing, and the progress promised at the summit is the return on all of them rather than fresh good fortune arriving from outside.