# Hexagram 63 · Jì Jì (既济) · After Completion

> **GuaCard #63 (Steady)**: It is done; now keep it well. / 事已完成，接下来要守好。

Water over fire, with every line in its proper place: this hexagram describes completion. Yet success is exactly when carelessness creeps in; what begins well can end in disorder. Maintaining what you have built takes as much care as building it, so anticipate problems before they arise.

_Editorial summary_

## Judgment

既濟：亨小。利貞。初吉終亂。

Kî Ȝî intimates progress and success in small matters. There will be advantage in being firm and correct. There has been good fortune in the beginning; there may be disorder in the end.

## Line 1

初九：曳其輪，濡其尾，无咎。

The first line, undivided, (shows its subject as a driver) who drags back his wheel, (or as a fox) which has wet his tail. There will be no error.

## Line 2

六二：婦喪其茀，勿逐，七日得。

The second line, divided, (shows its subject as) a wife who has lost her (carriage -) screen. There is no occasion to go in pursuit of it. In seven days she will find it.

## Line 3

九三：高宗伐鬼方，三年克之，小人勿用。

The third line, undivided, (suggests the case of) Kâo Ȝung who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. Small men should not be employed (in such enterprises).

## Line 4

六四：繻有衣袽，終日戒。

The fourth line, divided, shows its subject with rags provided against any leak (in his boat), and on his guard all day long.

## Line 5

九五：東鄰殺牛，不如西鄰之禴祭，實受其福。

The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject (as) the neighbour in the east who slaughters an ox (for his sacrifice); but this is not equal to the (small) spring sacrifice of the neighbour in the west, whose sincerity receives the blessing.

## Line 6

上六：濡其首，厲。

The topmost line, divided, shows its subject with (even) his head immersed. The position is perilous.

## Sources

- [周易 · 中文原文（Ruism Digital Library）](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/63#63.1)
- [James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Sacred Books of the East, XVI](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/63#63.1)