The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 63

What does I Ching hexagram 63, Already Across, mean?

The judgment

既濟：亨小。利貞。初吉終亂。Already across: small success. It pays to hold firm. A good start and a messy end.Zhou Yi 周易, 既濟, judgment. Source

The image

水在火上，既濟；君子以思患而豫防之。Water above fire. The noble person thinks of trouble and guards against it beforehand.Zhou Yi 周易, 既濟, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初九：曳其輪，濡其尾，无咎。
2. Second line六二：婦喪其茀，勿逐，七日得。
3. Third line九三：高宗伐鬼方，三年克之，小人勿用。
4. Fourth line六四：繻有衣袽，終日戒。
5. Fifth line九五：東鄰殺牛，不如西鄰之禴祭，實受其福。
6. Top line上六：濡其首，厲。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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