Hexagram:After Completion Hexagram:Before Completion

I Ching Transformation

63
After Completion
Ji Ji
Water / Fire
64
Before Completion
Wei Ji
Fire / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Fireyin-yang reversal
Lower TrigramFire Wateryin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

千柱百梁,終不傾僵,周宗寧康。

A thousand pillars and a hundred beams, never tilting or falling. The Zhou ancestral line rests in peace and health.

— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 63 (After Completion) to hexagram 64 (Before Completion). In the I Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.