Hexagram 64, Wèi Jì (Before Completion): Line 6 (top)
未济卦上九 · 火水未济 · 中文版
上九:有孚于饮酒,无咎,濡其首,有孚失是。
The line (Legge)
The topmost NINE, undivided, shows its subject full of confidence and therefore feasting (quietly). There will be no error. (If he) cherish this confidence, till he (is like the fox who) gets his head immersed, it will fail of what is right.
Small Image commentary
'He drinks and gets his head immersed:' - he does not know how to submit to the (proper) regulations.
象曰:饮酒濡首,亦不知节也。
In plain words
With good faith, drinking wine at ease: no fault; but if one gets one's head wet, good faith loses its way. The top line is at the end of the hexagram: the task is nearly done and one may relax, but not overindulge. The Small Image says wetting one's head with wine is not knowing restraint. This is the last of the sixty-four hexagrams: the book ends on "not yet complete", for change never stops.
Applying it to your situation
If a stretch of your life is nearly over and you can relax, this line suggests enjoying it without overdoing it. Once this ends, what would you like to begin next?
Position
A solid (yang) line in the top place, which is a yin (even) place, so it is not in its proper place. Its partner is line 3; one is yin and the other yang, so they respond to each other.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Wèi Jì changes into Hexagram 40 Xiè (Deliverance). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·未济之解.
The hexagram
Hexagram 64 Wèi Jì (Before Completion). The Judgment: Wei Ji intimates progress and success (in the circumstances which it implies). (We see) a young fox that has nearly crossed (the stream), when its tail gets immersed. There will be no advantage in any way.
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English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.