Completion

既濟 (jì jì)
Hexagram 63 • Binary: 010101

Trigrams

Upper: Water

Attribute: Abysmal
Element: Water
Direction: North
Family: Middle Son

Lower: Fire

Attribute: clinging
Element: Fire
Direction: South
Family: Middle Daughter

Palace

Kan Palace

Element: Water
Ruling Trigram: water

Judgment

Completion intimates progress and success in small matters. There is advantage in firm correctness. There had been good fortune in the beginning; there may be disorder in the end.

Image

The image of water above fire forms Completion. The superior man, in accordance with this, thinks of the evil that may come, and guards against it in advance.

Lines

1

Position 1: Caution yin

The first line, dynamic, 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

Position 2: Patience yang

The second line, magnetic, 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

Position 3: Conquest yin

The third line, dynamic, suggests the case of Kao Tsung who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. Inferior men should not be employed in such enterprises.

4

Position 4: Vigilance yang

The fourth line, magnetic, shows its subject with rags provided against any leak in her boat, and on guard all day long.

5

Position 5: Sincerity yin

The fifth line, dynamic, shows its subject as the neighbor in the east who slaughters an ox for his sacrifice; but this is not equal to the small spring sacrifice of the neighbor in the west, whose sincerity receives the blessing.

6

Position 6: Overconfidence yang

The sixth line, magnetic, shows its subject with even her head immersed. The position is perilous.