離 → 既濟
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 63: After Completion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
Line 4
九四 突如其來如。焚如。死如。棄如。
Nine in the fourth place means: Its coming is sudden; It flames up, dies down, is thrown away.
Line 5
六五 出涕沱若。戚嗟若。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Tears in floods, sighing and lamenting. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 王用出征。有嘉。折首。獲匪其醜。无咎。
Nine at the top means: The king uses him to march forth and chastise. Then it is best to kill the leaders And take captive the followers. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
口不從心，欲東反西，與意乖戾，動舉失使。
The mouth does not follow the heart; desiring east, turning west. At odds with one's own intent; every action misses its aim.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets water above fire: brilliance achieves completion but immediately loses coherence. The mouth does not follow the heart; one wishes to go east but turns west. Intentions and actions diverge, and every initiative misfires. The verse captures the essential paradox of After Completion: everything is in its proper place, yet that very perfection breeds carelessness. When fire below has already heated the water above, the system's work is done, and the next movement naturally tends toward disorder. From The Clinging to After Completion, fire's clarity enters a structure already perfectly arranged. The danger is complacency: when the mind relaxes after achieving order, the hand wanders, words contradict wishes, and the completed work begins to unravel from within.
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