64. Wei Chi / Before Completion

[rosada]

64. Wei Chi / Before Completion

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-- -- above LI THE CLINGING, FLAME
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-- --
----- below K'AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER
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This hexagram indicates a time when the transition from disorder to order is not yet completed. The change is indeed prepared for, since all the lines in the upper trigram are in relation to those in the lower. However, they are not yet in their places. While the preceding hexagram offers an analogy to autumn, which forms the transition from summer to winter, this hexagram presents a parallel to spring, which leads our of winter's stagnation into the fruitful time of summer. With this hopeful outlook the Book of Changes comes to its close.
-Wilhelm

[sparhawk]

[tuckchang]

Ji Ji is attained after the previous 62 hexagrams have been unfolded in the wake of Qian and Kun; the I Ching has accomplished its mission, however the world won’t stop hereafter.

Water tends to flow downward, while flames blaze upwards; in following the course of Nature, the trigram Li of Ji Ji ascends to the top and the trigram Kan descends to the bottom, wherein the hexagram Wei Ji is formed, and wherein the masculine, the founder and the leader, and the feminine, the assistant and the follower, are positioned at the posts inappropriate to them but they are in correlation with each other.

Nominally the water of the bottom trigram Kan and the fire of the bottom trigram Li have no interplay and move away in the opposite directions; physically the water of the inner upper trigram Kan (from line 3 to 5) and the fire of the inner bottom trigram Li (from line 2 to 4) is mingling with each other, relieving and aiding (to generate steam and power), as well as tending to terminate each other.

The masculine and the feminine restart to seek the position suited to them, respectively, and wherein it is teeming with the requirements and possibilities of changes. The world of the I Ching resumes and will be circling and circling ceaselessly.

Regards
Tuck

[fkegan]

Hi Luis,

Lovely image of the fire burning on its container supported on long logs with a totally separate pot of water underneath waiting like the fellow on the leaf for things to happen.

Personally, I would think of the fellow on his giant leaf hammock contemplating the sun still well away from the horizon and setting into the sea for sunset.

Either way it is trigram fire above trigram water which looks more attractive than the other way around in hex 63.

Frank

[elvis]

http://www.emotionaliching.com/lofting/bx101010.html

[ravenstar]

The poem that follows seems to be very 64ish......

MAN MAKES HIMSELF
David Craig

The ape-man grips a clumsy axe
And ushers in the man.
But when he's cracked a bone with it
He let it drop as done.

After five hundred thousand years
He chips the double edge
And stares at the advancing ice
Under his forehead ridge.

Soon he will think before he moves
And feel before he speaks
And cutting with the single edge
Discuss before he makes.

Soon he will eat the souls of bears,
Want what he cannot have,
And paint a bird he never saw
On the wall of a hidden cave.

Because of these two million years
The man is housed and shod
And upright (in the physical sense)
But still he dreams of gods.

Now he racks himself between
The body and the soul
And will not trust his mastery
of language and of tool.

His eyes turn inwards more than out
Look up and sigh for more.
And while his body rests, a soul
Creeps in at the back door.

How many generations more
Before our kingdom comes
And dying and living for this world,
We make ourselves at home.

ravenstar

64 is the ah before the ha.

[my_key]

Perhaps something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZswoD2Sijf4

[rodaki]

how about this for 64? . .


"Good Morning" by Clark Little

[rosada]

64. Before Completion

The ruler of the hexagram is the six in the fifth place, because BEFORE COMPLETION implies a time in which at first disorder prevails, then finally order. The six in the fifth place is in the outer trigram and initiates the time of order. Therefore it is said int eh Commentary on the Decision: "'BEFORE COMPLETION. Success.' For the yielding attains the middle."

THE SEQUENCE
Things cannot exhaust themselves. Hence there follows, at the end, the hexagram of BEFORE COMPLETION.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
BEFORE COMPLETION is the exhaustion of the masculine.
-Wilhelm