Before Completion · Huo Shui Wei Ji
Before Completion — the last step before the crossing, still untaken.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 64 is the last step — the fox nearly across the river, the work nearly finished, the ending not yet arrived. Its danger is not the distance but the rush: do not leap the final gap carelessly. Distinguish carefully between what is ready and what is not, and keep the ends from blurring into each other.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Water (Kan) · Water
- Upper trigram: Fire (Li) · Fire
- House: Fire (Li) · Fire
- Text in the original Chinese: 火水未济