← The I Ching
Hexagram 64 · ☲ over ☵
Before Completion
Wei Ji
The judgment
Almost there, but not yet — fire above water, the two elements working against each other rather than with. Something is nearly achieved; the crucial step remains. The person who takes real care with this final stage succeeds; the one who assumes it is already done fails at the last threshold.
The image. Fire above water — the elements nearly working together, the completion almost won.
Guidance
Give the final stage the same careful attention you gave the whole. Don't assume what is almost done is finished — small errors at the threshold are the most common and the most costly failures.
How it’s built
Every hexagram is two trigrams — the lower one beneath the upper. This one is Kǎn below Lí.
☲Upper · Firethe Clinging — light, clarity, beauty, the middle daughter
☵Lower · Waterthe Abysmal — danger, the deep, flow through hardship, the middle son