# Hexagram 19 · Lín (临) · Approach

> **GuaCard #19 (Flow)**: Good things approach; meet them warmly. / 好事正在靠近，温暖地迎接它。

This hexagram shows a favorable trend coming closer. It is a good time to reach out, show care, and guide things forward with generosity. Good momentum has a time limit, though: act while it is here, and prepare for the moment when the tide turns.

_Editorial summary_

## Judgment

臨：元亨。利貞。至于八月有凶。

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.

## Line 1

初九：咸臨，貞吉。

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.

## Line 2

九二：咸臨，吉无不利。

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.

## Line 3

六三：甘臨，无攸利。既憂之，无咎。

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.

## Line 4

六四：至臨，无咎。

The fourth line, divided, shows one advancing in the highest mode. There will be no error.

## Line 5

六五：知臨，大君之宜，吉。

The fifth line, divided, shows the advance of wisdom, such as befits the great ruler. There will be good fortune.

## Line 6

上六：敦臨，吉无咎。

The sixth line, divided, shows the advance of honesty and generosity. There will be good fortune, and no error.

## Sources

- [周易 · 中文原文（Ruism Digital Library）](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/19#19.1)
- [James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Sacred Books of the East, XVI](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/19#19.1)