What this change means
Here the second line is the heart of the change, and the lake below wakes into Thunder: a quiet pool starts to stir from underneath. This line asks you to accept that every phase passes, the good ones included. Seen that way, the coming shifts don't have to be met with fear. You can trust that you have what it takes to cross each stage, and that trust frees you to enjoy what's here without clinging.
The resulting hexagram, 24 Coming Back, speaks of return after a dark stretch. Read together, they describe a cycle: favor comes, it goes, and it can come back. What breaks the cycle is repeating the mistakes that led into the dark, so take note of them now. People may arrive to help, and your projects can find support. Watch for anxiety about the end spoiling the present, and for forgetting old lessons once things improve.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- 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.
- 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.
- The judgment of 24 Coming Back
After a period of adversity and darkness, the return comes. Still, be aware of the mistakes that led you into the dark, because if you repeat them you could fall again. People will come to help you, and your undertakings and projects will be favored.
Success. Going out and coming in without harm; friends arrive, no fault. Back and forth along its way: in seven days comes the return. It is favorable to have somewhere to go.
The trigrams
The way back
24 Coming Back → 19 Fleeting Successline 2
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.