未濟 → 无妄

Commentary

Fire above water, and a lone figure stands on the mountaintop, trying to plow fields with a deer — an absurd mismatch of tool and terrain. Brush and bramble go uncleared; autumn brings famine and a barren year. The verse is a study in misapplied effort: hunting animals used for farming, wild land treated as arable ground. Everything is attempted in the wrong mode. From Before Completion to Innocence, fire-over-water transforms into heaven with thunder rolling beneath — the cosmic image of spontaneous, uncorrupted action. The irony cuts deep: Innocence demands acting in accord with heaven's natural order, yet the verse shows someone violating that order at every turn. True innocence would recognize that deer do not plow and mountains do not yield grain.