未濟 → 解
Hexagram 64: Before Completion → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).
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
承川決水，為吾之祟，使我心憒。毋樹麻枲，居止凶咎。
Breaching river, releasing water; it becomes my bane; it throws my mind into turmoil. Plant neither hemp nor flax; to stay here brings only misfortune.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above water, and the dam breaks. River water is diverted and becomes a curse, leaving the mind in turmoil. Do not plant hemp or ramie here; staying in this place brings only misfortune. The verse is a flood narrative: water management has failed, the breach has turned beneficial water into destructive force, and the land is ruined for agriculture. From Before Completion to Deliverance, fire-over-water transforms into thunder and rain together — the spring thunderstorm that releases accumulated tension. Deliverance pardons faults and forgives crimes; it is the moment of liberation after crisis. But the verse warns that liberation requires abandoning the flooded ground. One must leave the ruined field to find higher land where the thunderstorm becomes cleansing rather than catastrophic.
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