既濟 → 蒙
Hexagram 63: After Completion → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).
Line 1
初九 曳其輪。濡其尾。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: He breaks his wheels. He gets his tail in the water. No blame.
Line 2
六二 婦喪其茀。勿逐。七日得。
Six in the second place means: The woman loses the curtain of her carriage. Do not run after it; On the seventh day you will get it.
Line 3
九三 高宗伐鬼方。三年克之。小人勿用。
Nine in the third place means: The Illustrious Ancestor Disciplines the Devil's Country. After three years he conquers it. Inferior people must not be employed.
Line 5
九五 東鄰殺牛。不如西鄰之禴祭。實受其福。
Nine in the fifth place means: The neighbor in the east who slaughters an ox Does not attain as much real happiness As the neighbor in the west With his small offering.
Line 6
上六 濡其首。厲。
Six at the top means: He gets his head in the water. Danger.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
太山止奔，變見太微。陳吳廢忽，作為禍患。
Mount Tai halts the charge; a change is seen at Taiwei. Chen and Wu, once neglected, become the source of calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water sits above fire, but the balance is already tipping. Mount Tai halts the fleeing — a great obstacle blocks the path of retreat. Then a change appears in the Taiwei celestial enclosure, an omen of political upheaval. Chen and Wu grow reckless, discarding their ruler Hu and bringing calamity upon the state. This likely alludes to the turmoil in the state of Zheng, where the powerful minister Zhai Zhong, pressured by the states of Chen and Song, deposed Duke Zhao (Hu) and installed Zi Tu. From After Completion to Youthful Folly, the orderly arrangement devolves into the mountain's spring — water emerging in darkness, groping without guidance. Completed order collapses into the confusion of those who act without understanding consequences.
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