Hexagram 63 for love
Hexagram 63 Already Crossed in love and relationships
Ji Ji is water over fire: the pot on the flame, each element where it does its work, every line in its proper place. In a relationship it is the bond that has arrived — the courtship over, the arrangement settled. The Judgment gives this its due and then its warning: 'success in small matters; good fortune at the beginning, disorder at the end.' Water above fire is also a state that cannot be left alone: if the balance shifts, one puts out the other.
So the lines are about tending rather than winning. Line one checks the urge to push further; line two waits out a passing coolness without pursuit; line four keeps the leak-rags ready while nothing is wrong; line five learns that at the peak a sincere small act outweighs a grand one. Line three is the one long campaign a settled bond may face, and the top line is the person who could not stop. A changing line in the lower trigram concerns restraint at the outset; one in the upper, vigilance at the height.
The hexagram in brief
Water over fire, every line in its proper place: completion. Success in small matters; favourable to persevere — good at the start, disorder at the end if you relax.
The task is done; now guard it: fix small faults early, and think of trouble while things go well.
The judgment
既濟：亨，小利貞，初吉終亂。Kî Žî 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.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 既濟 Already Crossed has its own page:
- 初九Nine at the beginningbraking the wheel · wet tail · restraint at the start
- 六二Six in the second placelost carriage screen · do not chase · seven days
- 九三Nine in the third placethe long campaign · three years · exhaustion
- 六四Six in the fourth placerags for the leak · all-day vigilance · doubt
- 九五Nine in the fifth placeeast and west neighbours · the lavish and the sincere · timing
- 上六Six at the tophead under water · peril · cannot last
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Questions
- Is hexagram 63, Already Crossed, a good sign for love?
- Ji Ji is water over fire: the pot on the flame, each element where it does its work, every line in its proper place. In a relationship it is the bond that has arrived — the courtship over, the arrangement settled. The Judgment gives this its due and then its warning: 'success in small matters; good fortune at the beginning, disorder at the end.' Water above fire is also a state that cannot be left alone: if the balance shifts, one puts out the other.
- What does Hexagram 63, 既濟 Already Crossed, mean?
- Water over fire, every line in its proper place: completion. Success in small matters; favourable to persevere — good at the start, disorder at the end if you relax.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).