未濟 → 坤
Hexagram 64: Before Completion → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
九二 曳其輪。貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: He brakes his wheels. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 4
九四 貞吉悔亡。震用伐鬼方。三年有賞于大國。
Nine in the fourth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears. Shock, thus to discipline the Devil's Country. For three years, great realms are awarded.
Line 6
上九 有孚于飲酒。无咎。濡其首。有孚失是。
Nine at the top means: There is drinking of wine In genuine confidence. No blame. But if one wets his head, He loses it, in truth.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
大步上車，南到喜家。送我狐裘，與福喜來。
With great strides I board the carriage; southward to the house of joy. They send me a fox-fur robe; fortune and happiness arrive together.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above water, nothing yet settled. A figure strides boldly onto a carriage and journeys south to a house of joy. There, a fox-fur robe is bestowed — a gift of warmth and status — and blessings arrive in tandem. The fox-fur robe in Han-dynasty culture signaled wealth and favor; receiving one from a southern household suggests a marriage alliance or a patron's generous welcome. From Before Completion to the Receptive, the restless fire-over-water resolves into pure earth, boundless and accommodating. The southward journey ends not in conquest but in being received, sheltered, enfolded. What was unsettled finds stability through yielding — the earth does not strive, yet everything comes to rest upon it.
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