Hexagram 19 · ䷒
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 brings good fortune. Working together in harmony is blessed.
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United approach, good fortune; the will is directed to the yielding within.
United approach brings good fortune because the will is directed toward proper relationship.
Joint approach. Good fortune. Everything furthers.
Joint approach with others brings good fortune. Everything furthers through cooperation.
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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 would not further. Even when anxious, remain blameless through proper conduct.
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Comfortable approach. Nothing that would not further, because the yielding is in a central position above.
Comfortable approach allows nothing to fail because the yielding occupies the central position above.
Complete approach. No blame.
Complete and sincere approach brings no blame. Full commitment is rewarded.
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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 the proper way for a great prince. Good fortune attends wisdom.
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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 and magnanimous approach brings good fortune and no blame. Generosity succeeds.
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Greathearted approach brings good fortune. The will is directed inward.
Greathearted approach brings good fortune because the will is properly directed inward.