Hexagram 63 · Line 2
After Completion — 二九
Ji Ji · Er Jiu
The Line
The woman loses her carriage-curtain. Do not run after it. On the seventh day you will get it.
Interpretation
When a woman rode in a wagon, she had a curtain that hid her from the eyes of the curious. If this curtain got lost, it would have been against good custom to continue driving. Transferred to public life, it means that when one wants to accomplish something, one is not given from the decisive side the trust that one needs, so to speak, for one's personal protection. Precisely in times after completion one can find that the rulers become proud and self-confident and no longer bother to come to meet unknown talents with attention. From this there now arises, as a rule, careerism. When no trust is brought to one from above, one seeks means and ways to find it and to bring oneself to light. From such unworthy procedure, however, one is dissuaded. "Do not seek for it." Do not throw yourself away on the outer world, but wait calmly and independently form your personal worth. The times change. When the six stages of the hexagram are past, the new era comes. What belongs to one, one cannot lose in the long run. It comes quite of itself to one. One must only be able to wait.