ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores the processes of change and balance as reflected in the hexagrams for the contemporary reader. The eye and the heart are in balance, within and without; clarity of vision and depth of feeling are working hand in hand. The name of this hexagram is 'After Completion', not simply 'Completion', and this point to a sensitive moment that scarcely exists in time; in fact, it is easy to miss it, like the pause between breaths. The outer, or primary, trigrams in the present hexagram represent order or balance in the present, however fleeting it may be; the inner, or nuclear, trigrams represent the tendency towards disorder and imbalance which is simply the natural, cyclical progression of life through time. As Kan (Water) sinks to become groundwater, Li (Fire) rises to heaven.
