既濟 → 泰
Hexagram 63: After Completion → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
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 5
九五 東鄰殺牛。不如西鄰之禴祭。實受其福。
Nine in the fifth place means: The neighbor in the east who slaughters an ox Does not attain as much real happiness As the neighbor in the west With his small offering.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
晨風文翰，大舉就溫。昧過我邑，羿无所得。
The goose passes and leaves a cry; a person passes and leaves a name. But this place is left with only emptiness — even the shadow does not linger.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water sits above fire, but this verse is a modern rewrite. The original reads: 'The morning wind and patterned pheasant take great flight toward warmth, passing my village at dawn — Yi cannot catch them.' Swift birds fly south in formation, moving through the early light too fast for even the divine archer to intercept. Their passage is a flash of beauty that cannot be seized or detained. From After Completion to Peace, fire-and-water order transforms into heaven and earth in mutual exchange. The birds' effortless migration embodies Peace: unforced passage between realms, warmth sought and found without struggle. What is complete need not be grasped — it flows naturally toward where it belongs.
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