Hexagram 63 of 64

Jì Jì — Everything in Its Place

水火既济 · Legge: Ki Chi · Water above, Fire below

Everything in its place: the small matters go well, and the ending is where the disorder is prepared.

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The Judgment

Jì Jì. 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.

Legge’s 1882 translation

Ki Chi 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.

The Image

LXIII. (The trigram representing) fire and that for water above it form Ki Chi. The superior man, in accordance with this, thinks of evil (that may come), and beforehand guards against it.

水在火上,既济;君子以思患而豫防之。

The Six Lines

The first nine · 初九

The first line, undivided, who drags back his wheel, which has wet his tail. There will be no error.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The first nine, undivided, (shows its subject as a driver) who drags back his wheel, (or as a fox) which has wet his tail. There will be no error.

The second six · 六二

The second line, divided, a wife who has lost her carriage-screen. There is no occasion to go in pursuit of it. In seven days she will find it.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The second six, divided, (shows its subject as) a wife who has lost her (carriage-)screen. There is no occasion to go in pursuit of it. In seven days she will find it.

The third nine · 九三

The third line, undivided, Kao Chung, who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. Small men should not be employed.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The third nine, undivided, (suggests the case of) Kao Chung, who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. Small men should not be employed (in such enterprises).

The fourth six · 六四

The fourth line, divided, shows its subject with rags provided against any leak, and on his guard all day long.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The fourth six, divided, shows its subject with rags provided against any leak (in his boat), and on his guard all day long.

The fifth nine · 九五

The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject the neighbor in the east who slaughters an ox; but this is not equal to the spring sacrifice of the neighbor in the west, whose sincerity receives the blessing.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The fifth nine, undivided, shows its subject (as) the neighbor in the east who slaughters an ox (for his sacrifice); but this is not equal to the (small) spring sacrifice of the neighbor in the west, whose sincerity receives the blessing.

The topmost six · 上六

The topmost line, divided, shows its subject with his head immersed. The position is perilous.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The topmost six, divided, shows its subject with (even) his head immersed. The position is perilous.

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