Okay, so I’ve been messing around with the I Ching lately, and I wanted to share my experience with Hexagram 63, “After Completion.” It’s a pretty interesting one, and I think my little experiment turned out okay.
Getting Started
First, I grabbed my three coins. I’ve got these old Chinese coins I use, but any coins will do. You just need to decide which side is heads (yang) and which is tails (yin). I flipped the coins six times, keeping track of each result.
- First toss: Heads, Heads, Tails. That’s a yang line with a value of 7(changing to yin).
- Second toss: Tails, Tails, Tails. Yin line, value of 6(changing to yang).
- Third toss: Heads, Heads, Heads, Yang line, value of 9 (changing to yin) .
- Fourth toss: Heads,Tails, Heads. Yang line, value of 8.
- Fifth toss: Tails, Heads, Tails. Yin line, value of 7.
- Sixth toss: Heads, Heads, Tails. Yang, value of 7(changing to yin) .
Building the Hexagram
I drew out the lines, starting from the bottom. Remember, you build these things from the bottom up, not top down! So, my sequence of coin tosses gave me this:
A solid yang line at the bottom,then a broken yin line, then solid yang line, broken yin line, solid yang line, and then a broken line at the top.
Then I looked it up. That’s Hexagram 63. The image in my book is all about a small fox getting its tail wet while crossing a stream. It talks about how things are in order, but there’s still potential for things to go wrong if you’re not careful. Kind of like, “You’ve done the work, but don’t mess it up now!”
The changing line
Hexagram 63’s changing lines mean that it will be transformed to Hexagram 39.
My Takeaway
Honestly, I thought about a project I just finished at work. It’s all submitted and done, but I still need to keep an eye on it. Make sure there are no bugs, follow up with the client, that kind of thing. So, the reading actually made a lot of sense to me. It wasn’t some magical prediction, but more of a reminder to stay vigilant even after the “big” work is done.
It’s all about the details, you know? Even when you think you’re finished, there’s always something more to consider. I’m going to try to keep that in mind this week and see what happens.
