Transformation · lines 2, 3, and 6

After the End becomes Inner Integrity

Starting hexagram
Resulting hexagram

What this change means

Wind moves over the lake as three lines change, and the figure opens at its center, an empty space where trust can live. The judgments count equally. The starting hexagram describes a success that comes and goes, with stagnation at the end that foresight can soften. The resulting hexagram, 61 Inner Integrity, says that when you're whole within, it shows on the outside, and your truth can move others toward great undertakings. The two meet in what lasts beyond circumstances. Outer success fluctuates; inner integrity doesn't. If you tend to that, the slow period loses much of its power over you, and people will still follow your lead. Be honest with yourself about what you want and why. Let your actions express that truth plainly.

What to read, in order

Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.

  1. The judgment of 63 After the End

    You're in a situation where you'll have a passing success: everything seems to be in your favor, and at the end comes a period of stagnation. If you prepare for it ahead of time, you'll be able to soften its effects.

    Success in small things. Constancy is favorable. At first, good fortune; in the end, disorder.

  2. The judgment of 61 Inner Integrity

    When you're whole within, it shows on the outside, and you'll be able to do great things and to let your truth move others toward great undertakings.

    Piglets and fish: good fortune. It is favorable to cross the great river. Constancy is favorable.

  3. Line 2 of 63 After the End

    Don't try to recover what you lose for now: it will come back to you naturally.

    The wife loses the screen of her carriage. Do not chase it: in seven days it is found.

  4. Line 3 of 63 After the End

    If you want to expand right now, you'll have to use extreme measures to clear the obstacles in the way.

    The High Ancestor attacks the land of Guifang; in three years he conquers it. Do not employ the petty person.

  5. Line 6 of 63 After the End

    This is a period of advance: retreating or stopping will bring you trouble.

    Wets its head. Danger.

The trigrams

Below Fire Lake
Above Water Wind

The way back

61 Inner Integrity → 63 After the End
lines 2, 3, and 6

Other transformations of After the End

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