I Ching Hexagram 63 — After Completion (Ji Ji): Success Is Not the End
By DailyDestiny Editorial Team
You finally made it, so why does part of you feel uneasy? Hexagram 63, Ji Ji (After Completion), is for the moment after you arrive: its all-correct lines, six changing-line destinations, King Wen's judgment, and how to care for what you built.
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What Does Hexagram 63 (Ji Ji) Mean When You Have Already Reached the Goal?
Imagine you just got the thing you worked years for. The degree is framed, the business is profitable, the wedding photos are back, the house is finally yours. And somewhere under the relief, a quiet voice asks: now what, and how do I keep this?
The short answer: Hexagram 63, Ji Ji, is the I Ching's answer to that question. It is the hexagram of having already arrived. Everything is in its right place, and that is exactly why it asks you to stay awake. Peak order is also peak exposure to change.
Ji Ji is usually rendered "After Completion," but the characters are more concrete. Ji means to ford a river, to ferry something over to the far bank. Ji Ji is "already across." Its partner, Hexagram 64 Wei Ji, is "not yet across." Every line of Hexagram 63 speaks from someone standing on the far bank with wet boots, looking back at the water. None of it is addressed to the ambition that started the trip.
Structurally, it is Kan (Water) above Li (Fire): a pot of water over a flame. Water descends and fire rises, so the two meet and do work. Reverse them, as Hexagram 64 does with Fire above Water, and they simply drift apart. Completion in the I Ching is not abundance or reward. It is complementary forces actually engaged with each other.
Then there is the line arrangement, which makes Hexagram 63 unique. From bottom to top: yang, yin, yang, yin, yang, yin. Every yang line (lines 1, 3, 5) sits in a yang position (the odd places), and every yin line (lines 2, 4, 6) in a yin position. In the positional grammar Chinese commentators call zheng, correctness, all six lines are correct. No other hexagram of the sixty-four achieves this.
Wilhelm/Baynes describe Hexagram 63 as the only condition of complete equilibrium in the I Ching, then note at once that equilibrium is not stability. A ball balanced at the top of a hill is in equilibrium, but any movement sends it downhill. Everything is right, and therefore everything is at risk.
The water here is not mainly the water of peril. For Kan read as danger in its own right, see "I Ching Hexagram 29, The Abysmal Water (Kan): Navigating Danger."
Alfred Huang reads Water above Fire as mutual benefit. Water calms fire's urge to flare destructively, and fire warms water and gives it purpose. It is a model of a good partnership: each restrains the other's excess while waking up the other's potential.
The same arrangement is fragile. Too much fire and the water boils away. Too much water and the fire is smothered. The balance that makes it work is exactly what makes it vulnerable.
Hilary Barrett connects this to peak performance in any field. The athlete at the top of their game, the company at peak profitability, the relationship in its most harmonious phase: all know, at some level, that a balance this fine cannot last forever. Hexagram 63 names that knowledge and turns it from anxiety into working wisdom.
It also helps to separate Hexagram 63 from the favorable hexagrams it gets confused with. Hexagram 11, Peace, describes heaven and earth in active exchange, a season of flourishing still going somewhere. If that is the reading you want, see "I Ching Hexagram 11 - Peace: Meaning & Interpretation." Hexagram 63 is the moment after flourishing has produced its result, when there is a finished thing to look after.
Why is the Water-over-Fire arrangement in Hexagram 63 considered complete while Fire-over-Water is not?
Think of a kettle on a stove. Water over fire achieves its purpose: the water boils, creating steam, heat and the ability to cook. Fire over water has no working relationship; the two move apart without touching.
Water naturally sinks toward fire, and fire naturally rises toward water, so the Hexagram 63 arrangement lets them meet. In Hexagram 64, Before Completion, they separate despite being close.
Completion in the I Ching means a working relationship. Incompletion means being side by side without contact. That carries into every part of your life: completion is when complementary forces are actually working on each other.
What does the all-correct line arrangement of Hexagram 63 tell us?
With every line in its correct place, Hexagram 63 has maximum structural order, which is also maximum exposure to change. When nothing is out of place, any change creates disorder. Shift one yang line to yin, or the reverse, and the perfection breaks.
You see this in real life. A company with every role perfectly filled is one resignation away from imperfection. A relationship where every need is met is one change of circumstance away from imbalance. Understanding that fragility is the gift of Hexagram 63.
Why are Hexagram 63's nuclear, inverse, and opposite hexagrams all Hexagram 64?
Hexagram 63 is a rare case where three separate transformations give the same answer.
Turn it upside down (the inverse, or fan) and the alternating lines reverse into Hexagram 64. Change every line to its opposite (the pang tong, or opposite hexagram) and the alternation again reverses into Hexagram 64. Take the nuclear trigrams from lines 2-3-4 and 3-4-5 and you get Water below Fire, Hexagram 64 once more. However you turn Hexagram 63, Before Completion looks back out of it.
The two share one more distinction. They are the only two hexagrams in which all three line pairs (1 with 4, 2 with 5, 3 with 6) hold proper yin-yang correspondence. The closing pair of the book is bound together at every level.
What Do the King Wen Judgment and the Duke of Zhou Line Texts Say About Hexagram 63?
If you have drawn Ji Ji, notice how carefully the text congratulates you. King Wen's judgment reads: "After Completion. Success in small matters. Perseverance furthers. At the beginning good fortune, at the end disorder."
The restraint is striking. A hexagram of perfect structural order gets a judgment of qualified success. "Small matters" succeed; grand matters are not mentioned. Perseverance "furthers" but is not enough on its own. Good fortune begins, and disorder follows. Every phrase is both a recognition and a warning.
The Duke of Zhou's line texts follow a completed state from its first stable moments to its dissolution.
Line 1: "He brakes his wheels. He gets his tail in the water. No blame." A fox crossing a frozen stream brakes at the start and gets only its tail wet. You will notice it right after a win, when you want to keep charging. Slowing down just after you reach your goal stops the momentum of ambition from carrying you past the point of balance.
Line 2: "The woman loses the curtain of her carriage. Do not run after it. On the seventh day you will get it." Something of value is lost for a while, but chasing it anxiously would backfire. Trust natural processes to bring it back. In a completed situation, small things will go wrong; patience beats panic.
Line 3: "The Illustrious Ancestor disciplines the Devil's Country. After three years he conquers it. Inferior people must not be employed." Even inside a completed state, hard challenges need sustained effort and a careful choice of people. The Illustrious Ancestor was a Shang dynasty ruler remembered for a long punitive expedition, which suggests that keeping order sometimes takes decisive action against sources of disorder.
Line 4: "The finest clothes turn to rags. Be careful all day long." This is the sharpest warning about the wear that follows completion. Beautiful garments wear out with use. Prosperous conditions degrade without maintenance. "Be careful all day long" means staying vigilant exactly when comfort tells you to relax.
Line 5: "The neighbor in the east who slaughters an ox does not attain as much real happiness as the neighbor in the west with his small offering." The ruler line teaches that after completion, sincere modesty beats elaborate display. The neighbor with a small, heartfelt offering receives more real blessing than the one who slaughters an ox for show. Plain, sincere care of what you have achieved matters more than dramatic celebration or expansion.
Line 6: "He gets his head in the water. Danger." The final line returns to the fox. The fox of Line 1 got its tail wet at the start; the fox of Line 6 gets its head wet at the end. The danger at the end is greater, because complacency has replaced caution. Wilhelm/Baynes note that the fox who has almost crossed a frozen stream and then carelessly dips his head stands for the failure that comes from relaxing vigilance just when success seems certain.
Why does the Hexagram 63 judgment say "success in small matters" rather than simply "success"?
The qualifier does two things. It signals that the time for grand achievement has passed, since the great work is done. And it warns you against using the completed state as a launching pad for ambitious new ventures.
Organizations that treat peak success as a springboard for aggressive expansion often find they have overextended at the worst moment. Small, careful improvements succeed where grand ambitions would shake what you have built.
What is the significance of the fox imagery in Lines 1 and 6 of Hexagram 63?
The fox crossing a frozen stream is one of the I Ching's most memorable images, and Hexagram 63 uses it twice. The fox has to cross carefully, because its weight could break the ice anywhere.
In Line 1 it brakes cautiously at the start and suffers only a wet tail. In Line 6 it has almost finished and then dips its head into the water at the very end. The lesson is that danger in a completed situation is greatest at the end, because success breeds the complacency that leads to failure.
How should I interpret Line 5 of Hexagram 63 about the eastern and western neighbors?
It teaches that the sincerity of an offering matters more than its size. The eastern neighbor makes an elaborate sacrifice, slaughtering an ox, in a spirit of display. The western neighbor makes a humble offering with real devotion.
After a success, you may be tempted to celebrate grandly, show it off, or expand beyond what the situation needs. Line 5 says the opposite: do less, with more sincerity. Caring for your achievement with quiet devotion brings more lasting good fortune than any elaborate celebration.
Which Hexagram Does Each Changing Line of Hexagram 63 Turn Into?
Your moving lines show which way your perfect order is starting to tip. Because Hexagram 63 begins from perfect positional order, every moving line breaks that order in a named direction, which makes the six destinations unusually telling.
Line 1 moving gives Hexagram 39, Obstruction (Jian), Water over Mountain. The fox brakes its wheels at the outset, and the relating hexagram shows how that caution feels from the inside: a road blocked.
Line 2 moving gives Hexagram 5, Waiting (Xu), Water over Heaven. The carriage curtain returns on the seventh day, and Waiting is the discipline of not chasing it.
Line 3 moving gives Hexagram 3, Difficulty at the Beginning (Zhun), Water over Thunder. The three-year campaign against the Devil's Country turns a completed state back into a founding struggle, a logic developed in "I Ching Hexagram 3, Difficulty at the Beginning (Zhun): Growth Through Struggle."
Line 4 moving gives Hexagram 49, Revolution (Ge), Lake over Fire. The finest clothes turning to rags marks the point where repair is not enough and the garment has to be shed, which is what Ge, the molting of a pelt, describes.
Line 5 moving gives Hexagram 36, Darkening of the Light (Ming Yi), Earth over Fire. The eastern neighbor's ox and the western neighbor's small offering sit at the threshold where the bright thing goes under the earth, and the small offering is what survives.
Line 6 moving gives Hexagram 37, The Family (Jia Ren), Wind over Fire. The fox wets its head at the very end, and the relating hexagram points to the ordered household that either catches such a slip or does not.
When all six lines move, Hexagram 63 becomes Hexagram 64, Before Completion, the plainest statement the book makes about what follows an arrival.
Read as a set, these destinations clarify what kind of trouble Hexagram 63 is really warning you about. Four of the six (39 Obstruction, 5 Waiting, 3 Difficulty at the Beginning, 36 Darkening of the Light) are hexagrams of constraint, delay or dimming, not catastrophe. Nothing collapses. Things get slower, darker and harder to move. That is the texture of decline after completion in this tradition.
The two exceptions teach something. Hexagram 49, Revolution, from the fourth line, is the one destination that authorizes real change, and it arrives exactly where the fabric has worn through. Hexagram 37, The Family, from the top line, is the one plainly favorable destination. It suggests the final danger of Ji Ji is survivable when there is a well-ordered group around the person who slips.
Line 5's link to Hexagram 15, Modesty, is thematic rather than structural. The fuller treatment of why humility beats display belongs to "I Ching Hexagram 15, Modesty (Qian): The Power of Humility."
What does it mean to draw Hexagram 63 with no changing lines?
It describes a situation that is settled and not moving right now. The Zagua, the commentary of contrasting pairs, glosses Ji Ji with a single word meaning fixed or settled, and a static Hexagram 63 is that gloss in practice. The crossing is done, the arrangement is holding, and no line is pushing toward anything else yet.
The reading is then all about your conduct, not prediction. Keep the fire under the water steady, tend the small matters the judgment endorses, and treat the stillness as time bought, not a permanent condition.
Which changing line of Hexagram 63 carries the most serious warning?
Line 6: "He gets his head in the water. Danger." The fox has crossed almost the whole frozen stream and then submerges its head on the last step.
It is more severe than the others because the failure is entirely self-inflicted and entirely avoidable, and it happens when the situation was effectively already won. Line 4, "the finest clothes turn to rags," is a close second. But Line 4 still allows repair or replacement, while Line 6 offers only the bare word for danger.
What Does Confucian Commentary Say About Completion in Hexagram 63?
The old commentators had practical advice for you at the top: plan for trouble while things are good. The Confucian commentaries on Hexagram 63 focus on what it means for a hexagram of perfect order to warn of its own impermanence.
The Tuanzhuan (Commentary on the Judgment) states: "After Completion: success. The firm and the yielding are correctly distributed. Small matters succeed because the yielding holds the central position."
The "yielding in the central position" is the yin line in position 2, the center of the lower trigram. It stands for the modest, receptive quality needed to maintain rather than build. Maintenance calls for different virtues than creation, and the commentary names those maintenance virtues as yin: attention to detail, patience, modesty, and responsiveness to small changes.
The Xiangzhuan (Commentary on the Image) states: "Water over fire: the image of After Completion. Thus the superior person takes thought of misfortune and arms himself against it in advance."
This is among the most practically useful passages in all of I Ching commentary. At the moment of success, the wise person considers what could go wrong and takes preventive steps. That is prudence, not pessimism. The fire under the water could die out, the water could boil away, outside forces could disturb the balance. Anticipating these and preparing for them is the art of keeping what you have completed.
The Xici (Great Commentary) uses the relationship between Hexagrams 63 and 64 to show a foundational principle: the book has no final hexagram because change has no final state. Placing completion before incompletion at the end of the King Wen sequence is that principle in structural form.
Confucian scholars debated for centuries whether this was King Wen's conscious choice or something that emerged from the structure. Most concluded it was both, since the truth that completion turns into incompletion works at once as physical law and practical warning.
Wilhelm/Baynes note that the Chinese concept of zhongyong, the Doctrine of the Mean, which counsels moderation in all things, finds its clearest I Ching expression in Hexagram 63: do not let success intoxicate you, and do not let completion lull you into thinking you are finished.
How does Confucian commentary on Hexagram 63 distinguish achievement from completion?
It treats achievement as a living process and completion as a fixed state, and warns that mixing them up leads to decline.
Achievement needs ongoing effort, adaptation and growth. Completion is the brief peak when everything lines up, and it becomes the starting point of decay if you mistake it for something permanent. The superior person celebrates achievement as a process while staying wary of completion as a state, because the state invites the complacency that undermines the process. The best rulers, on this reading, never considered their work finished.
Why does the commentary on Hexagram 63 emphasize yin virtues for maintaining completion?
Creation draws on yang virtues: initiative, boldness, vision, force. Maintenance draws on yin virtues: attention, patience, responsiveness, modesty.
Most completed systems fail because leaders keep applying yang virtues, launching expansions and new initiatives, when the situation asks for yin ones: careful monitoring and small adjustments. The commentary names this mismatch as the main cause of the "disorder at the end." If you built the house with creative energy, you now have to switch to caretaker energy to keep it.
What Does Hexagram 63 Mean for Relationships and Emotional Life?
Picture the season in a relationship when things finally feel easy, the fights have stopped and the routines just work. When Hexagram 63 appears in a relationship reading, it says you have arrived there: harmony reached, roles settled, communication working.
So the question is no longer whether it will work out. It is how you take care of what you have built.
The most common way relationships fail follows the Hexagram 63 path exactly. A couple reaches real harmony, assumes it runs itself, slowly reduces the effort that created it, and wakes up one day inside the disorder the judgment predicted.
Line 4's "finest clothes turning to rags" describes the relationship that was once beautiful and has been worn thin by neglect. That line's relating hexagram is 49, Revolution: the book's way of saying neglect eventually forces a remaking rather than a repair.
If you are in a Hexagram 63 phase, the counsel is the judgment's own: small matters succeed. Daily attention beats the grand gesture of renewed commitment.
Hilary Barrett reads Hexagram 63 in love as a lesson in static versus dynamic harmony. Static harmony is a picture on the wall: beautiful, frozen, slowly fading. Dynamic harmony is a dance, beautiful because both partners keep adjusting to each other.
Hexagram 63 counsels the dance, not the picture. Its call for vigilance becomes emotional attentiveness: noticing your partner is stressed before they say so, answering bids for connection instead of letting them slip by.
Alfred Huang applies the fox imagery directly to long marriages. He observes that many couples who have crossed decades together make their most serious mistakes in the final phase, when complacency has replaced attentiveness. The fox gets its head wet at the end of the crossing, not the beginning.
Does Hexagram 63 mean my relationship has peaked?
It says your relationship has reached genuine order and harmony, an accomplishment worth marking. Whether it is a peak depends on what you do next.
Treat it as a destination and stop investing, and it becomes a peak followed by decline. Treat it as a living state that needs ongoing attention, and the harmony can hold and deepen over time. Hexagram 63 warns against the first and counsels the second.
What are the "small matters" that maintain relationship harmony under Hexagram 63?
They are the daily micro-moments that keep you connected: saying good morning with real warmth, asking about your partner's day and listening to the answer, thanking them for specific things, initiating physical affection, sharing a meal without screens, remembering and keeping commitments, and meeting emotional bids with presence instead of distraction.
Line 5's eastern and western neighbors make the same point in ritual terms: a small offering made sincerely outweighs an ox slaughtered for display.
How Do You Sustain Success in Career and Business Under Hexagram 63?
If you just hit the milestone at work, this hexagram gently asks what keeps it standing. In career and business readings, Hexagram 63 says the goal is reached: the project delivered, the business profitable, the target met. It acknowledges that and immediately turns your attention to sustaining it.
The pattern it warns about is familiar. A company reaches market dominance and stops innovating. An executive reaches the top job and coasts on past wins. A team ships a successful product and loses the urgency that produced the quality. Each time, completion was treated as a destination instead of a transition.
If you draw Hexagram 63, the practical move is a change of mode, not of role. The skills that created your success (vision, initiative, appetite for risk) now need to be joined by the skills that preserve it (monitoring, adjusting, managing detail). The judgment's "small matters" names that second set as the ones that will actually pay off in this phase.
Alfred Huang notes that Hexagram 63's business wisdom matches what management writers call the success trap: successful organizations keep doing what made them successful long after conditions change, until past success causes future failure.
The hexagram's focus on small matters is the antidote. Watch closely for small shifts in market, technology, customer preference and competitive position that signal it is time to adapt.
Hilary Barrett adds that Hexagram 63 matters especially for leaders moving from growth to maintenance. The founder who built the company must either learn the very different skills of maintaining it or hand the reins to someone who has them. Hexagram 63 is the pivot point where that decision can no longer be avoided. Line 4's worn-out garment, whose relating hexagram is 49, Revolution, is where the book stops recommending repair.
Should I start a new project after receiving Hexagram 63?
Hexagram 63 explicitly favors "small matters" over grand new undertakings. That does not mean never start anything, but the moment favors consolidation over expansion.
Tend what you have achieved, shore up weak spots, and build reserves. When you do begin something new, start small and test carefully rather than launching boldly. The slide from good fortune to disorder warns that ambitious ventures launched at the peak tend to eat the resources needed to keep your existing success.
What does the "Illustrious Ancestor" of Hexagram 63 Line 3 mean for business?
Line 3 refers to a three-year campaign against the Devil's Country. In business terms, it is the sustained effort needed to tackle a serious internal problem inside a successful organization.
Even at peak performance, hard problems persist: an underperforming division, a toxic team dynamic, built-up technical debt, a competitive threat. The line counsels attacking these with the disciplined persistence of a military campaign instead of letting the glow of overall success hide them. The warning against "inferior people" means critical challenges need your best people, not whoever is free because the task seems beneath top talent.
How Do You Work With Hexagram 63 in Daily Practice?
Living with Hexagram 63 means holding two things at once: gratitude for what you have achieved, and alertness to the forces that will eventually change it.
The classical instruction is the Image commentary's: take thought of misfortune and arm yourself against it in advance. In practice, that is preventive maintenance in every part of your life, done at the peak rather than in the trough.
Have the relationship check-in while things are good. Do the financial review during prosperity. Get the health check-up while you feel fine. Run the organizational audit at peak performance.
The timing rule that ties these together: the best moment to fix a problem is while you still have the resources, energy and stability to handle it well, which is exactly when nothing seems to need attention.
A written exercise. Practitioners often work this hexagram on paper rather than in meditation. List what in your completed situation would fail first if you neglected it for a year, then act on the top item this week. That list is the judgment's "small matters" made specific, and it turns the warning from a mood into a task.
Hilary Barrett suggests the deepest modern use of Hexagram 63 is in how we relate to achievement culture. The world celebrates the moment of achievement and then instantly demands the next one. Hexagram 63 counsels the unfashionable art of staying with what you have accomplished. Learning to maintain is as demanding as learning to create, and far less admired.
Alfred Huang connects Hexagram 63 to the modern experience of arrival fallacy, when reaching a long-desired goal fails to bring the lasting satisfaction it promised. Completion is not a resting place but a transition point.
If you want the casting mechanics behind all this, see "I Ching Beginner's Guide: How to Consult the Book of Changes." Hexagram 63 assumes the cast is already made and the answer already in your hand.
How does Hexagram 63 apply to the end of a life chapter?
When a major chapter closes, through retirement, children leaving home, the end of a long project, or reaching a lifelong goal, Hexagram 63 offers you both validation and direction.
The validation: what you accomplished is real and worth honoring. The direction: this completion is a transition, not an ending. The "disorder at the end" need not be catastrophic. Often it shows up as the creative messiness of a new chapter starting.
The counsel is to let go of the finished chapter gracefully and turn toward what is emerging, with the same sincerity that produced the achievement.
Questions people ask
What does Hexagram 63 After Completion mean?
Hexagram 63 (Ji Ji, After Completion) is the I Ching hexagram for a situation that has already been carried across to its goal. It is Water (Kan) above Fire (Li), with every yang line in a yang position and every yin line in a yin position, the only hexagram in the I Ching where all six lines are "correctly" placed. The judgment reads: "After Completion. Success in small matters. Perseverance furthers. At the beginning good fortune, at the end disorder." Your moment of greatest order holds the seeds of its own undoing, so peak success asks for peak vigilance.
Why is Hexagram 63 not the last hexagram in the I Ching?
Placing Hexagram 63, After Completion, second to last, followed by Hexagram 64, Before Completion, is one of the I Ching's most deliberate teachings. If the book ended with completion, it would suggest a final, permanent order is possible. By putting Before Completion last, the text shows that completion gives way to a fresh cycle. Wilhelm/Baynes note that this reflects the cyclical view of time running through Chinese philosophy: nothing is ever truly finished.
What is the nuclear hexagram of Hexagram 63?
The nuclear hexagram of Hexagram 63 is Hexagram 64, Before Completion (Wei Ji), formed by Water (lines 2-3-4) below Fire (lines 3-4-5). Hidden inside perfect completion is incompletion, so even at the moment of greatest order the next cycle is already present at the deepest level. Alfred Huang treats this nuclear link between Hexagrams 63 and 64 as the I Ching's mathematical expression of the principle that each extreme carries the seed of its opposite.
What does "success in small matters" mean in Hexagram 63?
It is a real limit, not modesty. After Completion is not the time for grand new undertakings but for careful attention to detail. The great work is done. Your challenge now is maintenance, fine-tuning, and catching the small oversights that wear down what you achieved. Wilhelm/Baynes read this as counsel to focus on the quality of execution rather than the ambition of vision. The house has been built; now keep it in good repair.
What does "at the beginning good fortune, at the end disorder" mean?
This is the hexagram's central warning. Completion begins in good fortune because everything is properly ordered, and over time, without active care, that order slips. The trajectory is natural but not inevitable. Conscious attention and continued effort can lengthen the good fortune, though they cannot make it permanent. The line texts place the sharpest risk at the end, not the start, which is why Line 6 shows the fox wetting its head on the last step of a crossing it had almost finished.
Where does Hexagram 63 sit in the King Wen sequence?
Hexagram 63, After Completion, is the sixty-third hexagram in the King Wen sequence. It comes after Hexagram 62, Preponderance of the Small, and before Hexagram 64, Before Completion, which closes the book. The Xugua, the traditional commentary on the sequence, reasons that whoever exceeds others in something is bound to carry it through, so Preponderance of the Small is followed by the hexagram of the thing already carried across. The Zagua, the short commentary of contrasting pairs, glosses Ji Ji with a single word meaning settled or fixed, and Wei Ji with the sense of exhaustion at the end of a line. That is why the pair is read as one closing statement rather than two separate hexagrams.
What do the changing lines of Hexagram 63 mean?
Line 1: "He brakes his wheels. He gets his tail in the water. No blame." Early caution stops the momentum of success from carrying you too far. Line 2: "The woman loses the curtain of her carriage. Do not run after it. On the seventh day you will get it." Something is lost but will come back naturally if you do not chase it anxiously. Line 3: "The Illustrious Ancestor disciplines the Devil's Country. After three years he conquers it. Inferior people must not be employed." Major challenges need sustained effort and your best people. Line 4: "The finest clothes turn to rags. Be careful all day long." What looks excellent may already be wearing out. Line 5: "The neighbor in the east who slaughters an ox does not attain as much real happiness as the neighbor in the west with his small offering." Sincerity outweighs display. Line 6: "He gets his head in the water. Danger." The fox wets its head at the end of the crossing, the hexagram's final warning.
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