64 hexagrams, mapped by situation · Hexagram 19 · Lin

Lin: You are high up, and you have not thought about coming down

This page describes a situation. It gives no verdict. The number, trigrams and inner hexagram are all checkable.
Answer first (self-contained)Lin (hexagram 19, 坤 over 兑) describes this kind of situation: You are high up, and you have not thought about coming down. It does not predict anything and it does not decide for you. It does one thing: it makes visible which dynamic you are currently inside, so you can recognise whether you are in it. There are three ways to check. First, the situation itself: You are high up, and you have not thought about coming down. Second, three checkable facts below (the number, the two trigrams, and the inner hexagram). Third, the three steps at the bottom, and whether you have done any of them.

What situation this is

It is going well. Position changing, more within reach, everything moving forward. Everyone is looking ahead. You are the one who knows this has an end date. You are not saying so, because now is not the time to say it. And you are not sure you want to either.

Checkable facts

Number
Hexagram 19 of 64
Name
临 (Lin)
Trigrams
坤 over 兑
Inner hexagram
The internal force is 复
Reversed
Reversed hexagram: Dui
Inverted
Inverted hexagram: Guan
Palace
坤 (二世)
Book
上经
Structure
坤上兑下
Seasonal phase
十二月(丑)
Law attached
循环 (secondary: 临界)
Position
Previous Gu, next Guan

How it differs from the neighbours

Previous hexagram Gu (hexagram 18) describes: Something broke a long time ago, and you have been covering it ever since.
Next hexagram Guan (hexagram 20) describes: Watching everyone else, never yourself.
The inner hexagram (internal force) The inner hexagram is 复. The situation on this page is what is visible; Fu is the return of one yang, so the rise you are in has already started its own downward half. is what has been going on inside it. They are different layers, and reading one as the other is the usual mistake.

Three steps you can take today

  1. Not entering is the default state of disorder. Order needs supply every day, and subtracting matters as much as adding.
  2. Write down where you want to be if this momentum ends. Write it now, not when it ends.
  3. Am I staying quiet because it would spoil things, or because I do not want to look?

Do just this today Today, write down one number: how long you would like this to last.

Does this sound like you

How this path works, and where it breaksLin is the hexagram about the eighth month, so the decline is not a mood. It is a date written into the text. That is why the useful time to decide where you want to be is now, while the rise still makes deciding look unnecessary.
Inner hexagram: the internal forceFu is the return of one yang, so the rise you are in has already started its own downward half.
What this hexagram does not doThis does not tell you to leave while things are going well, and it does not tell you to stay put. It only says the decline is already scheduled. That sentence is most useful before the decline arrives.
Most likely misuseThe easiest misuse is reading it as a call to be content. It is about a cycle, not a mindset. No mindset stops a trend once the trend has turned.

Sources for this page

Data source
周易深度解析与蒸馏_v3 · 卦义表
Number, trigrams, inner hexagram, reversed, inverted, palace and seasonal phase all come from the original text and can be checked.
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Situation names, signals, today's step, micro-action and the core question were written for this project. They are not from the original text and are not an authoritative reading of it.
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