Hexagram 19 臨 changing to hexagram 30 離
Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 2, 3, 4, 6.
What to read
Four changing lines: read the two unchanged lines of the resulting hexagram; the lower one is the main one. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)
Hexagram 30 離, line 1
履錯然，敬之无咎。
The first line, undivided, shows one ready to move with confused steps. But he treads at the same time reverently, and there will be no mistake.
Hexagram 30 離, line 5
出涕沱若，戚嗟若，吉。
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject as one with tears flowing in torrents, and groaning in sorrow. There will be good fortune.
The two hexagrams
Hexagram 19 臨 — judgment
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.
Hexagram 30 離 — judgment
利貞。亨。畜牝牛，吉。
Lî indicates that, (in regard to what it denotes), it will be advantageous to be firm and correct, and that thus there will be free course and success. Let (its subject) also nourish (a docility like that of) the cow, and there will be good fortune.
The changing lines of hexagram 19
| Line | Chinese | Legge |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 至臨，无咎。 | The fourth line, divided, shows one advancing in the highest mode. There will be no error. |
| 6 | 敦臨，吉无咎。 | The sixth line, divided, shows the advance of honesty and generosity. There will be good fortune, and no error. |
English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.
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