Approach · Di Ze Lin
Approach — the great one who comes down to meet the small.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 19 is the approach of one who has power and yet draws near with grace — the noble person who attends to ordinary people and ordinary work. Progress is real but must be handled gently; force would ruin it. Meet others where they are, act through kindness, and the field is yours to cultivate.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Lake (Dui) · Metal
- Upper trigram: Earth (Kun) · Earth
- House: Earth (Kun) · Earth
- Text in the original Chinese: 地泽临