Approach — growing influence, like spring steadily advancing.
A favorable time of expanding power and opportunity draws near. Act while the season is right, with kindness and foresight. Remember that spring's advance, too, has its limit.
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Approach places Earth (receptive, devoted) above Lake (joyous, open). The interplay of these two trigrams gives the hexagram its character.
The Classical Textoriginal Chinese
The Judgment · 卦辞
元亨利贞。至于八月有凶。
The Image · 大象
泽上有地，临；君子以教思无穷，容保民无疆。
The Six Lines · 爻辞
- 初九咸临，贞吉。象曰：咸临贞吉，志行正也。
- 九二咸临，吉无不利。象曰：咸临，吉无不利；未顺命也。
- 六三甘临，无攸利。既忧之，无咎。象曰：甘临，位不当也。既忧之，咎不长也。
- 六四至临，无咎。象曰：至临无咎，位当也。
- 六五知临，大君之宜，吉。象曰：大君之宜，行中之谓也。
- 上六敦临，吉无咎。象曰：敦临之吉，志在内也。
The judgment, image and line texts above are quoted from the original Zhou Yi. A modern Chinese translation of the full classic is available on the original-text page.