Hexagram 19 · line 6
Approach
臨Lín
Generous approach. Favorable. No fault.
Line statement
上六
敦臨，吉，无咎。
Generous approach. Favorable. No fault.
Generous approach occupies the uppermost yielding line, whose firm change turns the upper earth trigram into mountain and the figure into Hexagram 41.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes