Hexagram 64 · line 6
Before Completion
未濟Wèi Jì
Drinking wine with confidence. No fault. But if the head is drenched, that confidence loses its proper measure.
Line statement
上九
有孚于飲酒，无咎。濡其首，有孚失是。
Drinking wine with confidence. No fault. But if the head is drenched, that confidence loses its proper measure.
Confidence permits drinking in Line 6, but a drenched head marks confidence carried beyond its proper measure. Its change makes Thunder above Water, Hexagram 40. Release offers a contrast with the excess described here.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes