未濟 → 賁
Hexagram 64: Before Completion → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).
Line 1
初六 濡其尾。吝。
Six at the beginning means: He gets his tail in the water. Humiliating.
Line 2
九二 曳其輪。貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: He brakes his wheels. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 3
六三 未濟征凶。利涉大川。
Six in the third place means: Before completion, attack brings misfortune. It furthers one to cross the great water.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
華首山頭，仙道所由。利以居止，長无咎憂。
Atop Mount Huashou; the way of immortals passes through. Favorable for dwelling and rest; long without blame or worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above water, the unfinished journey. Atop Mount Huashou, the way of the immortals opens. It is beneficial to dwell here in stillness, and one will long be free from blame or sorrow. Huashou Mountain appears in Daoist geography as a site of spiritual cultivation — a peak where practitioners could access transcendence. The verse counsels settling at this elevated threshold rather than pressing onward. From Before Completion to Grace, fire-over-water transforms into fire glowing beneath the mountain. Grace adorns the surface without changing the substance beneath; the mountain with fire at its base is beautiful but contained. The immortal path here is not wild ascent but refined stillness — dwelling at the luminous boundary between the mundane and the transcendent.
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