臨 → 剝
Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Line 1
初九 咸臨貞吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Joint approach. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 2
九二 咸臨吉。无不利。
Nine in the second place means: Joint approach. Good fortune. Everything furthers.
Line 3
六三 甘臨。无攸利。既憂之。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Comfortable approach. Nothing that would further. If one is induced to grieve over it, One becomes free of blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
壽如松喬，與日月俱；常安康樂，不見禍憂。
Long-lived as Song and Qiao, enduring alongside sun and moon; ever at peace and in good health, never seeing misfortune or worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above the lake meets the mountain resting upon earth — Splitting Apart's quiet erosion. Yet the verse defies the hexagram's usual foreboding: 'Long-lived as Chisongzi and Wang Qiao, enduring together with sun and moon, always at peace and in good health, never glimpsing sorrow or misfortune.' The Daoist immortals Song Qiao represent transcendence beyond temporal decay. From Approach to Splitting Apart, the mountain's slow erosion threatens all structures — but the immortals exist outside structure entirely. Their longevity is not resistance to stripping away but freedom from it. The verse offers a radical consolation: when everything around you crumbles, the one who has already released attachment to form persists untouched.
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