Hexagram 19 · King Wen sequence
Hexagram 19: Approach
臨 · Lin
An opening is drawing nearer and deserves active preparation rather than passive optimism.
Upper and lower trigrams
Reflection meaning
An opening is drawing nearer and deserves active preparation rather than passive optimism.
Move toward the opportunity, stay accessible, and prepare for the responsibilities that come with access.
If this hexagram appears in a changing reading
Changing lines mark the parts of the six-line figure that move from yin to yang or yang to yin. Those changes generate a second hexagram. Oracle Mirror presents the first hexagram as the current symbolic pattern and the transformed hexagram as a second lens on the direction of change; it does not treat the second figure as a guaranteed future event.
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