䷿ Hexagram 64: Wei Chi — Before Completion

“Before Completion. Success. But if the little fox, after nearly completing the crossing, gets his tail in the water, there is nothing that would further.”

Philosophical Context: Classical Zhouyi Oracle Judgment for ䷿ Wei Chi (Before Completion), composed of Fire above, Water below.

“Fire over water: the image of the condition before transition. Thus the superior person is careful in the differentiation of things, so that each finds its place.”

Philosophical Context: Confucian Ten Wings (Da Xiang) moral commentary on how the sage embodies Before Completion.

“In Before Completion (Fire above, Water below), the interaction of the two primary trigrams reveals the law of change: when a tendency reaches its extreme, it turns toward its complementary opposite.”

Philosophical Context: Classical Yin-Yang Cosmology of the Book of Changes.