既濟 → 大畜
Hexagram 63: After Completion → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 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 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.
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
弱水之右，有西王母。生不知老，與天相保，不利行旅。
To the west of the Weak Water, there dwells the Queen Mother of the West. She lives knowing no old age, preserved alongside Heaven. Travel is not favorable.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water sits above fire, and to the right of the Weak Water dwells the Queen Mother of the West. She knows neither birth nor aging, her existence coextensive with heaven itself — yet travel to reach her is inadvisable. The Queen Mother of the West, guardian of the peaches of immortality atop Mount Kunlun, represents transcendence beyond the mortal order. The Weak Water, too thin to float a feather, separates the human world from the divine. From After Completion to Great Taming, the balanced state transforms into heaven stored within the mountain — vast energy accumulated and held. The immortal realm is the ultimate taming: eternal life contained within sacred geography. But the warning stands: the completed person should not attempt the crossing.
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