Hexagram 64: Before Completion火水未濟 · Wèi Jì

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

The Judgment

Success. The little fox has nearly crossed when it wets its tail. Nothing furthers.

亨，小狐汔濟，濡其尾，无攸利。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Not yet finished, still underway. Today suits walking the last stretch carefully, and not slackening just because the end is near.

Something to do today

• List the steps still needed before one task is wrapped up.

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.