Hexagram 64 · line 1
Before Completion
未濟Wèi Jì
Wetting the tail. Cause for regret.
Line statement
初六
濡其尾，吝。
Wetting the tail. Cause for regret.
The wet tail gives Line 1 a troubled beginning. Its change makes Lake below Fire, Hexagram 38. Opposition offers a comparison with the unfinished crossing.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes