Ji Ji · After Completion

The meaning

What the name means Ji Ji is already across: the thing has been done.

The picture Water over fire, water and fire meeting, each put to use, everything in its place.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about what comes after completion. The thing has just been done, so think of the disorder that could come and stay alert; do not slacken. Done is not the end, and keeping it is harder than getting it.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

It is mostly done, which is when slackness comes easiest. The more so now, think where trouble can still arise, and guard what you have.

The upper trigram is Water and the lower is Fire: Water above, Fire below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

亨小，利貞，初吉終亂。

The image

水在火上，既濟；君子以思患而豫防之。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初九曳其輪，濡其尾，無咎。
2. 六二婦喪其茀，勿逐，七日得。
3. 九三高宗伐鬼方，三年克之，小人勿用。
4. 六四繻有衣袽，終日戒。
5. 九五東鄰殺牛，不如西鄰之禴祭，實受其福。
6. 上六濡其首，厲。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".