䷒ Hexagram 19: Nearing

Judgment

APPROACH has supreme success. Perseverance. In the Eighth month, there will be misfortune.

Image

The earth above the lake: The image of APPROACH. Thus become inexhaustible in your instruction and unflagging in your nourishing support of people.

Description
Hexagram 19 is named 臨 (lín), “Nearing”. Other variations include “approach” and “the forest”. Its inner (lower) trigram is ☱ (兌 duì) open = (澤) swamp, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☷ (坤 kūn) field = (地) earth.