Before Completion

The Judgment

未濟，亨。小狐汔濟，濡其尾，无攸利。

Before Completion. Success. But if the little fox, after nearly completing the crossing, gets his tail in the water, there is nothing that would further.

The Image

火在水上，未濟；君子以慎辨物居方。

Fire over water: the image of Before Completion. Thus the superior person discriminates carefully so that things find their proper place.

In one line

Not finished yet — careful endings are what make crossings succeed.

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