Hexagram 64 · line 3
Before Completion
未濟Wèi Jì
Not yet across. Setting out brings misfortune. Crossing the great river is beneficial.
Line statement
六三
未濟，征凶，利涉大川。
Not yet across. Setting out brings misfortune. Crossing the great river is beneficial.
Line 3 sets the misfortune of advancing beside the benefit of crossing the great river. Traditional commentators disagree about this tension. Changing it makes Wind below Fire, Hexagram 50; the cauldron adds another image of something prepared for use.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary 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 6: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes