既濟

Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 63: After Completion

Opposition
Fire / Lake
既濟
After Completion
Water / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

先易後否,告我利市。騷蘇自苦,思吾故止。

First ease, then hardship; it tells me the market is profitable. Restless and bitter of its own accord; yet I reflect, and therefore I stop.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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