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Hexagram 63 · King Wen sequence

After Completion

既濟 · jì jì

Modern reflection

After completion, vigilance protects a hard-won balance.

Lower trigram: 離 Fire
Upper trigram: 坎 Water

Historical source

Kî Žî intimates progress and success in small matters. There will be advantage in being firm and correct. There has been good fortune in the beginning; there may be disorder in the end.

(The trigram representing) fire and that for water above it form Kî Žî. The superior man, in accordance with this, thinks of evil (that may come), and beforehand guards against it.

James Legge, 1882, public domain. Historical wording is shown for source transparency, not as a guaranteed prediction.

Changing-line passages

  1. Line 1The first NINE, undivided, (shows its subject as a driver) who drags back his wheel, (or as a fox) which has wet his tail. There will be no error.
  2. Line 2The second SIX, divided, (shows its subject as) a wife who has lost her (carriage-)screen. There is no occasion to go in pursuit of it. In seven days she will find it.
  3. Line 3The third NINE, undivided, (suggests the case of) Kâo Žung, who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. Small men should not be employed (in such enterprises).
  4. Line 4The fourth SIX, divided, shows its subject with rags provided against any leak (in his boat), and on his guard all day long.
  5. Line 5The fifth NINE, undivided, shows its subject (as) the neighbour in the east who slaughters an ox (for his sacrifice); but this is not equal to the (small) spring sacrifice of the neighbour in the west, whose sincerity receives the blessing.
  6. Line 6The topmost SIX, divided, shows its subject with (even) his head immersed. The position is perilous.

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