大過 → 既濟

Commentary

Lake over wind crosses into water above fire — After Completion, where every line is in its correct place yet complacency threatens. Loading provisions as if going to the fields, but the hoe breaks and the food is lost. Weeds choke the seedlings without being cleared, and one starves alone through the year. The verse describes agricultural failure at every stage: the tool breaks before work begins, weeds are left untended, and famine follows. After Completion's danger is precisely this complacency: when everything seems in order, the temptation is to neglect maintenance. From Great Exceeding to After Completion, the overburdened structure reaches apparent balance — but the hoe's breaking reveals that the equilibrium is fragile. Without constant vigilance, the completed field reverts to wilderness, and the farmer who thought the work was done starves amid his own neglected crops.