Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Fleeting Success becomes Attraction
What this change means
Five lines move, and only the top one stays put: a lake now rests on a mountain, where earth once covered a lake. That still top line of 31 Attraction carries the whole message. It warns that trying to sway people or gain their backing through talk alone, without deeds to match, keeps your results modest.
Almost everything in the favorable season of the starting hexagram shifts here, and what remains is a test of consistency. The resulting hexagram is about openness and receptivity, letting people come close who support you freely. That kind of support doesn't come from persuasion. It comes when what you say and what you do line up. Watch for promising more than you deliver, or talking up a project you're not yet acting on. Let people see your conduct; that's what tends to draw them in, and it's what keeps them near once the good luck fades.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 6 of 31 Attraction, which stays still
If you try to influence others or win their support with words alone and not with matching actions, your achievements will be modest.
Contact at the jaws, the cheeks, the tongue.
- The judgment of 19 Fleeting Success
A period of luck, fortune and well-being is coming. Make the most of it, because it will last only eight months; after that, conditions will change. If you can pay attention, read the signs and take care and precautions before the decline arrives, you won't avoid it, but you will lessen its effects while circumstances change.
Great success. Constancy is favorable. When the eighth month comes, misfortune.
- Line 1 of 19 Fleeting Success
If you join with the right people, you'll have support and backing when the decline comes.
Drawing near together. Constancy brings good fortune.
- Line 2 of 19 Fleeting Success
Recognizing that every situation is impermanent will let you move through each phase not from fear, but trusting that you have what you need to get through it.
Drawing near together. Good fortune; nothing that is not favorable.
- Line 3 of 19 Fleeting Success
Relying too much on favorable situations will lead you to inertia and loss. If you react early, you can recover.
Drawing near with sweetness. Nothing is favorable. Once grieved by it, no fault.
- Line 4 of 19 Fleeting Success
Joining with the people under you and supporting them will help you stay stable.
Drawing near all the way. No fault.
- Line 5 of 19 Fleeting Success
Surrounding yourself with capable collaborators and respecting what they do, encouraging their autonomy, will bring you a stable achievement.
Drawing near with wisdom: what befits the great ruler. Good fortune.
- The judgment of 31 Attraction
You'll get good results to the extent that you stay open and receptive, which lets people come close who will support you and help you get there, generously and without self-interest.
Success. Constancy is favorable. Taking a wife brings good fortune.
The trigrams
The way back
31 Attraction → 19 Fleeting Successlines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Other transformations of Fleeting Success
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.