既濟 → 乾
Hexagram 63: After Completion → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 婦喪其茀。勿逐。七日得。
Six in the second place means: The woman loses the curtain of her carriage. Do not run after it; On the seventh day you will get it.
Line 4
六四 繻有衣袽。終日戒。
Six in the fourth place means: The finest clothes turn to rags. Be careful all day long.
Line 6
上六 濡其首。厲。
Six at the top means: He gets his head in the water. Danger.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
游駒石門，騄耳安全。受福西鄰，歸邑玉泉。
The wandering colt passes through the Stone Gate; the fine steed arrives safely. Blessings received from the western neighbor; returning to the village of the Jade Spring.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water sits above fire, every line in place — After Completion at its most precarious equilibrium. A wandering colt passes through the Stone Gate, and the famous steed Luer arrives safely. Blessings come from the western neighbor, and one returns home to the Jade Spring. Luer was one of King Mu of Zhou's legendary eight steeds that bore him west to Mount Kunlun and the Queen Mother of the West. The Stone Gate suggests a dangerous passage navigated with sureness. From After Completion to the Creative, perfect order transforms into heaven's self-generating initiative. What was carefully arranged now becomes dynamic force — the thoroughbred no longer merely completes the journey but gallops of its own sovereign will.
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