未濟 → 晉

Commentary

Fire above water, and threats multiply from every direction. The owl beats its wings to avoid a lurking predator; a thief stalks two women; only fortune preserves them. Then drought strikes like disease, and the lord has neither millet nor grain. The verse piles danger upon danger: aerial predators, human criminals, natural disaster, royal famine. Nothing connects these threats except their relentless accumulation. From Before Completion to Progress, fire-over-water transforms into fire rising above the earth — brightness emerging from darkness. Progress is the hexagram of the lord receiving horses and being received in audience three times in a day. The contrast is stark: the verse describes a world where every advance is blocked, yet the target hexagram promises that light will eventually break through the earth's surface.