Interpretation: With energies related to closure and assessment that may be very significant here, we reach the end of a cycle and therefore need to draw conclusions about what was just experienced, but we also must be able to determine what to plant for the next cycle, by deciding which “seeds” will survive and perpetuate their qualities.
Some things may have been only partially accomplished and will have to undergo an additional cycle to be realized.
Other things come to a definitive end and we must be able to draw conclusions, finish them off, withdraw, and leave them behind.
It is important to be able to distinguish between these two possibilities and determine which one is more probable, but this requires caution and may take more time, and we will only really truly know concretely once the next cycle has begun.
This period of time requires that we demonstrate humility and wisdom (for analysis), hold back from being impulsive, and be able to prepare for the new beginning.
Astrological points to pay attention to: Here we are directly faced with symbolism relating to the end of a cycle, which analogously calls to mind the 12th house, the house of appraisal and karmic purging, which represents the close of the personal zodiac, the sign of Pisces which finishes the year and ends winter, with the equinoctial point and the spring equinox which implies Aries’s resumption of life, as well as the newfound dominance of the forces of day as they triumph over the forces of night.
This may constitute an important transition phase which may astrologically translate in various ways: perhaps an important planet arriving in the 1st house or a Conjunction between two central, sensitive planets that begins a new cycle of our personal or social life, or this may even be a New Moon in the position where our Sun was at birth in Secondary progressions, or various other important progressions for that matter, and this may sometimes also be a resumption of direct motion following Retrograde motion.
In any case, there is truly a notion of a “new leaf that needs to be turned over,” the significance of which will also depend on the question that was asked, but this indicates a need to move on to a higher phase of expression.
Remarks: This final hexagram of the I Ching represents “the omega” that symbolically ends the entire cycle of this oracle, and happening upon it inevitably holds a very significant, extreme, symbolic, energetic charge which may highlight the importance and “weight” of the question that was asked.