63. Completion to 9. Passive Restraint

Changing lines

1. Line 2

   The second line, magnetic, 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 second line is magnetic and in her proper place. With her dynamic correlate in line five, she might be expected to take action, but she is central and correct, a lady who has lost her carriage screen. She will not advance further so soon after success has been achieved, but keeps herself in hidden retirement. Let her not seek the screen. The seven days is a cycle of completion running its course -- then a new period when action will be proper shall have commenced.

2. Line 6

   The sixth line, magnetic, shows its subject with even her head immersed. The position is perilous. The topmost line is magnetic and on the outermost edge of the trigram of Peril. Her action is violent and dangerous, like that of one attempting to cross a ford and being plunged over her head in the water.

The present judgment

Completion intimates progress and success in small matters. There is advantage in firm correctness. There had been good fortune in the beginning; there may be disorder in the end.

The later judgment

Passive Restraint brings about progress and success. We see dense clouds, but no rain coming from our western borders.

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