I Ching hexagram 64

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I Ching hexagram 64, depicted :|:|:| is named 未濟 (wei4 ji4), Not-Yet Fording. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Before Completion; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Not Yet Completed.

• Inner (lower) trigram is ☵ (:|: 坎 kan3) Gorge = (水) water
• Outer (upper) trigram is ☲ (|:| 離 li2) Radiance = (火) fire
• The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With containment (water in lower) comes direction-setting, an ideology (fire in upper)"

I Ching hexagrams
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself

The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of trigrams (tri = 3 lines) into hexagrams (hex = 6 lines), where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin (6) and yang (9) and so showing a property or method (of divination) - the hexagrams are all linked together. The description of each hexagram contribute to the expression of the whole or Oneness.

• The skeletal form of hexagram 64 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 54 where we have a generic focus on immaturing. The expression in 64 is not only about not completing, getting the steps 'wrong', but also an emphasis on avoiding closure, not close pre-maturely, but remaining open. Giving it the ability to move toward hexagram 1.