Hexagram 19
臨 Lín · Approach
Legge: Lin
☷ Earth (Kūn) above ☱ Lake (Duì)
Scryway summary
Modern commentary written for Scryway. Not part of the classic text.
Growing influence drawing near. Act generously while conditions favour you, knowing they will turn.
The judgment
Lin (indicates that under the conditions supposed in it) there will be great progress and success, while it will be advantageous to be firmly correct. In the eighth month there will be evil.
The image
(The trigram for) the waters of a marsh and that for the earth above it form Lin. The superior man, in accordance with this, has his purposes of instruction that are inexhaustible, and nourishes and supports the people without limit.
The lines, bottom to top
- Bottom line, solid
The first line, undivided, shows its subject advancing in company (with the subject of the second line). Through his firm correctness there will be good fortune.
- Second line, solid
The second line, undivided, shows its subject advancing in company (with the subject of the first line). There will be good fortune; (advancing) will be in every way advantageous.
- Third line, broken
The third line, divided, shows one well pleased (indeed) to advance, (but whose action) will be in no way advantageous. If he become anxious about it (however), there will be no error.
- Fourth line, broken
The fourth line, divided, shows one advancing in the highest mode. There will be no error.
- Fifth line, broken
The fifth line, divided, shows the advance of wisdom, such as befits the great ruler. There will be good fortune.
- Top line, broken
The sixth line, divided, shows the advance of honesty and generosity. There will be good fortune, and no error.
Quoted from James Legge (trans.), The Yi King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1882. Public domain. The image is from Legge’s Appendix II. Words in parentheses are Legge’s additions.