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I Ching · Hexagram 19 Approach

Hexagram 19 for career: Approach

臨 Lín · Career

Rising influence and opportunity. Engage fully, teach and protect the people you are responsible for, and secure the gains. The eighth month is a real deadline: what is not established by then may be lost.

Lake below, earth above: the earth leaning over the water, the higher approaching the lower with care. Approach describes a rising time, spring coming, the strong lines entering from below and growing. The judgement is very favourable and it contains a warning: in the eighth month there is misfortune. The season will turn. The reading asks you to act now, generously and attentively, as someone in authority approaches those they are responsible for, and to keep the coming turn in mind so that the gains are secured before it arrives.

Advice
Act generously and attentively while the time is favourable, and secure the gains before it turns.
Warning
A favourable season treated as permanent ends in the misfortune the judgement names.

The changing lines, read for career

If your cast of Hexagram 19 had changing lines, these are what each one adds to a career question, and where each leads.

  1. Line 1 · changes into 7 The Army

    Joint approach. Persistence brings good fortune. Rise with your allies and mean it.

  2. Line 2 · changes into 24 Return

    Joint approach. Good fortune; everything furthers. The conditions are with you; move.

  3. Line 3 · changes into 11 Peace

    Comfortable approach. Nothing furthers. If one becomes concerned, no blame. If you have become complacent, notice it now; that alone repairs the fault.

  4. Line 4 · changes into 54 The Marrying Maiden

    Complete approach. No blame. Bring able people close and give them real work.

  5. Line 5 · changes into 60 Limitation

    Wise approach. Right for a great prince. Good fortune. Delegate to the capable and trust them.

  6. Line 6 · changes into 41 Decrease

    Generous approach. Good fortune. No blame. If you are past the active stage, come back to help those who are in it.

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