節 → 既濟
Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 63: After Completion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
九二 不出門庭。凶。
Nine in the second place means: Not going out of the gate and the courtyard Brings misfortune.
Line 3
六三 不節若。則嗟若。无咎。
Six in the third place means: He who knows no limitation Will have cause to lament. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
弱足刖跟，不利出門。市賈无嬴，折亡為患。
With weak feet and severed heels, going out brings no advantage. Market trade yields no gain; loss and ruin become the affliction.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water over lake regulates movement, and this verse depicts movement crippled at its source. Weak-footed with severed heels — the punishment of foot-cutting (yue) that left a person permanently hobbled — one cannot profit from going out. The market yields no gain; losses multiply as the only harvest. The verse combines physical mutilation with economic failure: the one whose mobility has been destroyed cannot participate in the commerce that sustains life. From Limitation to After Completion, the transformation presents a world where everything is in its proper place — water above fire, perfectly ordered — yet the verse's subject cannot benefit from this completion. The order exists, the market functions, but the maimed person stands outside it. After Completion's perfection becomes a closed system that excludes the damaged. Limitation taken to the flesh becomes permanent exile from prosperity.
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