Hexagram 64

Hexagram 64 (Before Completion) - Fire over Water - Toward an end, change, extra caution, uncertainty, confusion, not yet fulfilled, incompletion, transition from chaos to order, the last mile.

Hexagram 64

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64: Before Completion

未濟 (wèi jì)

 

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64: Before Completion

Themes / Alternate Names / Structure

Toward an end, change, extra caution, uncertainty, confusion, not yet fulfilled, incompletion, transition from chaos to order, the last mile.

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Fire over Water.

Host: Line 5 (Yin)

Opposite Hexagram: 63 (After Completion)
Inverse Hexagram: 63 (After Completion)
Mutual Hexagram: 63 (After Completion)

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Fire Trigram

離 lí

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Trigram3_Fire

Fire Trigram

Correspondences / Themes

#3
2nd daughter. Phoenix. Conception. Eyes. Summer. South. Fire. Deserts.

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The Clinging, to radiate, enlightening, intelligent, assertiveness, ambition, leadership.

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Water Trigram

坎 kǎn

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Water Trigram

Correspondences / Themes

#6
2nd son. Pig. Fetal. Ears. Winter. North. Water. Rivers. The Sea.

The Abysmal, to risk, facing danger, difficult, emotional, the occult, the depths.

When a particular line of a hexagram changes from Yin to Yang or vice versa, a new "Change Hexagram" is created. The below section details each of the 6 Change Hexagrams for Hexagram 64

The principal line of the hexagram on which the central theme for divination focuses. In most (but not all) cases, the host resides in the second or fifth place (central places within their trigrams), of which the fifth place is most common.  Some hexagrams have more than one hosts. my color adobe mission uses Master Alfred Huang's The Complete I Ching as its reference guide for hexagram hosts.  The hexagram icons below with line detail show the Host line in BOLD outline.

 

When a hexagram is written in reverse order (Line 6 becomes Line 1, Line 5 becomes Line 2, etc), an Inverse Hexagram is created.

A hexagram's opposite is the hexagram where each Yin line is Yang and vice versa.  For example, hexagram 1 (The Creative, all Yang lines) and hexagram 2 (The Receptive, all Yin lines) are opposites.

A mutual hexagram is formed by the "mutual" trigrams formed by Lines 2/3/4 and Lines 3/4/5. 

Line Change Detail

 

This image shows what “change hexagram” results when each line changes from yin to yang (or vice versa).

The 6 flip boxes below show the changing hexagram pair for each line in larger detail.

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Line 1

 

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L1_Yin

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Line 1

L1_Yang

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Line 2

L2_Yang

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Line 2

 

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L2_Yin

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Line 3

 

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Line 3

L3_Yang

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Line 4

L4_Yang

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Line 4

 

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L4_Yin

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Line 5

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L5_Yin

 

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Line 5

L5_Yang

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Line 6

L6_Yang

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Line 6

 

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