既濟 → 坤
Hexagram 63: After Completion → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Line 1
初九 曳其輪。濡其尾。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: He breaks his wheels. He gets his tail in the water. No blame.
Line 3
九三 高宗伐鬼方。三年克之。小人勿用。
Nine in the third place means: The Illustrious Ancestor Disciplines the Devil's Country. After three years he conquers it. Inferior people must not be employed.
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
陽春生草，萬物盛興。君子所居，災禍不到。
In the warmth of spring, grass grows; all things flourish and thrive. Where the noble one dwells, disaster and misfortune do not arrive.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water sits above fire in perfect balance, and spring sunlight coaxes grass from the earth. All living things flourish in abundance. Where the gentleman dwells, disaster and misfortune cannot reach. The verse paints an idyll of natural prosperity under benevolent presence — not through effort but through the sheer quality of one's abode. From After Completion to the Receptive, the precise arrangement of fire and water dissolves into earth's boundless capacity to receive and sustain. Order completed now yields to something gentler: the earth that nurtures without discrimination, where growth happens not by command but by the quiet generosity of the ground itself.
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