The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 64

What does I Ching hexagram 64, Not Yet Across, mean?

The judgment

未濟：亨。小狐汔濟，濡其尾，无攸利。Not yet across: success. The little fox has nearly crossed and wets its tail. Nothing pays.Zhou Yi 周易, 未濟, judgment. Source

The image

火在水上，未濟；君子以慎辨物居方。Fire above water. The noble person carefully sorts things and puts each in its place.Zhou Yi 周易, 未濟, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初六：濡其尾，吝。
2. Second line九二：曳其輪，貞吉。
3. Third line六三：未濟，征凶，利涉大川。
4. Fourth line九四：貞吉，悔亡，震用伐鬼方，三年有賞于大國。
5. Fifth line六五：貞吉，无悔，君子之光，有孚，吉。
6. Top line上九：有孚于飲酒，无咎，濡其首，有孚失是。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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