晉 → 乾

Commentary

Fire rises above the earth as brightness advances, yet here the brightness finds no proper crown. One robe serves three caps — resources stretched impossibly thin, the garments never arrive, and disaster follows. The image evokes an official whose investiture remains incomplete: the regalia of rank exists in name only, with no substance to fill it. Progress stalls when outward form cannot match inner capacity, like a flame burning above barren ground with nothing to sustain it. From Progress to the Creative, the transformation warns that heaven's self-generating initiative demands real substance; without proper equipment and preparation, even the most brilliant advance collapses into crisis.