臨 → 家人
Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
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.
Line 5
六五 知臨。大君之宜。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Wise approach. This is right for a great prince. Good fortune.
Line 6
上六 敦臨。吉。无咎。
Six at the top means: Greathearted approach. Good fortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
客宿臥寒，席蓐不安；行危為害，留止得歡。
The guest lodges in the cold, his mat and bedding ill at ease; to venture forth brings harm -- better to stay and find contentment.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above the lake encounters wind emerging from fire — the Family's radiating warmth. A guest lodges for the night but sleeps cold; mat and bedding bring no comfort. Travel carries danger and brings harm; only by staying put does one find joy. The verse contrasts the misery of the road with the comfort of home — cold inns versus warm hearths. From Approach to the Family, the elder's broad oversight narrows to the domestic circle where genuine warmth resides. Wind born from fire in the Family hexagram means that inner warmth radiates outward as gentle influence. The traveler who abandons the journey and returns home discovers that what he sought abroad was waiting within his own walls all along.
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