Hexagram 63: After Completion水火既濟 · Jì Jì

• Upper trigram　Kǎn, Water: danger, flow and keeping faith through difficulty.
• Lower trigram　Lí, Fire: light, clarity and attachment.

The Judgment

Success in small matters. Perseverance furthers. Good fortune at the start, disorder at the end.

亨小，利貞，初吉終亂。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Things are complete and everything is in place. Today suits consolidating results and checking details, reminding yourself that what is finished still needs looking after.

Something to do today

• Go back over something you finished and fill in the details you missed.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.