既濟 → 訟
Hexagram 63: After Completion → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
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 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 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 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
羊頭兔足，羸瘦少肉。漏囊貯粟，利无所得。
Sheep's head and rabbit's feet; thin and lean, little meat. A leaking sack stores grain; profit is nowhere to be gained.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water sits above fire, but the balance yields nothing of substance. A sheep's head on rabbit's legs — the body is emaciated, scarcely any meat. Grain stored in a leaking sack drains away; there is no profit to be had. The imagery is relentlessly deficient: mismatched anatomy producing a creature too thin to eat, a container too porous to hold its contents. From After Completion to Conflict, the orderly fire-and-water arrangement gives way to heaven and water moving in opposite directions. What was complete now comes apart at the seams — the vessel that should hold everything leaks, and opposing forces drain whatever was accumulated. Completion without structural integrity is merely the prelude to loss.
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