64 story

The image of hexagram 64
Wèi Jì, not yet crossing

Hexagram 64 has trigram Water below or inside, Fire above or outside. Water is the shape-giver because it inspires everything on earth, giving it its own way of flowing. Fire turns it into visible and ordered creatures, plants, rocks, rivers and even air-currents.

What does it mean, 'inner' and 'outer trigram' (popup)

When trigram Water is below (popup)

When trigram Fire is above (popup)

Water below Fire: Water has no form, it adapts the form of its space. At the base of what happens, that means that everything it influences gets the form inherent in its own possibilities and abilities, and also the form of the surroundings it happens to be in. Fire makes it happen, makes it visible, makes it unique.

The old diviners gave this combination of trigrams a name: Wèi Jì, not yet across. It means that things are being created but didn't yet reach a final form. They still can grow into different results, so be careful what you do to them. It might have huge consequences.

Ideogram of the hexagram name: the first character (at the top) is a lush tree, promising fruit. Meanings: not-yet, taste, future, no, not right, that's not all, shortage, question mark. The second character is water or river and many same-level plants: a level crossing-place in a river: crossing or across, ferry, circulation, achievement, success, relief, adjustment, reinforcement.

The 'Great Image' says: Fire above water: not yet across. The noble one is cautious when differentiating things so that each finds its place.

Hex.64 is the contrast of 63, where everything is formed and finished and in its place.
Hex.64 is the moment of innumerable possibilites. Anything might come of this, it depends on what is in its ‘genes’ and in its surroundings - and what anything in its surroundigs does to it. The bees have visited the flowers, the petals fall off, but the fruit has yet to grow. Look after it but don't force it.

  Only when darkness too is involved can there be creativity. Only where no form exists, all forms are possible, all is open.
   In a real work of art, it is the hinted at, but not spoken out, which gives the illusion, the beauty. It takes form in the beholders eye. Every time a different form, every time a new creation.
   The fruits of art have to be ‘not yet’, the abundance of summer, before the harvest.

The image of hexagram 64 Wèi Jì, not yet crossing

The image of hexagram 64
Wèi Jì, not yet crossing