Hexagram 19 · ䷒
Approach brings supreme success. Maintaining perseverance furthers. However, when the eighth month comes, decline sets in and misfortune follows.
Judgment
Approach brings supreme success. Maintaining perseverance furthers. However, when the eighth month comes, decline sets in and misfortune follows.
Image
Earth rising above the lake represents the approach of the great to the small. The noble person teaches tirelessly and protects the people without limit.
Lines
United approach. Good fortune. Joint approach. Good fortune. Everything furthers. Comfortable approach. Nothing that would not further. If one becomes worried, there is no blame. C...
Approach has supreme success. Perseverance furthers. When the eighth month comes, there will be misfortune.
Approach brings supreme success. Maintaining perseverance furthers. However, when the eighth month comes, decline sets in and misfortune follows.
Approach has supreme success, because the firm is growing. Joyous and gentle, the firm is in the central position and correct. Great success through correctness is the way of heaven. When the eighth month comes, there will be misfortune, because prosperity cannot last forever.
Approach brings supreme success because the firm is advancing and growing. Through joyous gentleness with firmness in the central position, great success is achieved through correctness—the way of heaven. But prosperity cannot last forever; when the eighth month comes, misfortune arrives.
The earth above the lake: the image of Approach. The noble person teaches without limit and protects the people without bounds.
Earth rising above the lake represents the approach of the great to the small. The noble person teaches tirelessly and protects the people without limit.
United approach. Good fortune.
United approach. Good fortune.
Small Image
United approach, good fortune; the will is directed to the yielding within.
United approach is fortunate because the will is directed inward.
Joint approach. Good fortune. Everything furthers.
Joint approach. Good fortune. Everything furthers.
Small Image
Joint approach, good fortune, because one follows the central path.
Joint approach brings good fortune because one follows the central path.
Comfortable approach. Nothing that would not further. When anxious, no blame.
Comfortable approach. Nothing that would not further. If one becomes worried, there is no blame.
Small Image
Comfortable approach. Nothing that would not further, because the yielding is in a central position above.
Comfortable approach furthers because the yielding is above in a central place.
Complete approach. No blame.
Complete approach. No blame.
Small Image
Complete approach, no blame, because the position is correct.
Complete approach brings no blame because the position is correct.
Wise approach. This is correct for a great prince. Good fortune.
Wise approach. This is fitting for a great prince. Good fortune.
Small Image
Wise approach; this is correct for a great prince. The position is correct and central.
Wise approach suits a great prince because the position is correct and central.
Greathearted approach. Good fortune. No blame.
Greathearted approach. Good fortune. No blame.
Small Image
Greathearted approach brings good fortune. The will is directed inward.
Greathearted approach is fortunate because the will is directed inward.
What does Lin / Approach mean in the I Ching?
Approach brings supreme success. Maintaining perseverance furthers. However, when the eighth month comes, decline sets in and misfortune follows.
How should I study Hexagram 19 on this page?
Start with the judgment and image, then read the line statements in sequence. United approach. Good fortune. Joint approach. Good fortune. Everything furthers. Comfortable approach. Nothing that would not further. If one becomes worried, there is no blame. C...
How can this hexagram be applied in a modern reading?
Approach brings supreme success because the firm is advancing and growing. Through joyous gentleness with firmness in the central position, great success is achieved through correctness—the way of heaven. But prosperity...
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