What this change means
What the third line asks is a hard look at comfort. As it moves, the lake below turns into Heaven, and the figure fills with a strength that can feel like it will last forever. That's exactly the danger. Leaning too much on good conditions breeds inertia, and inertia leads to loss. The line also offers a way back: if you respond early, what slips can still be recovered.
The resulting hexagram, 11 Well-Being, describes harmony and understanding, with unhelpful people and situations moving away and better ones arriving. It's a real gift, and you can enjoy it. The point is to enjoy it awake. Keep doing the work that brought you here, keep checking what's changing, and correct course at the first sign of drift. Watch for the moment when ease turns into carelessness; that's the moment to act, not later, when the cost is higher.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- 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.
- 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 11 Well-Being
A period of well-being, harmony and understanding is coming, and you can enjoy it. People and situations that weren't good for you are moving away, and in their place come people and situations that bring blessings and support. Heaven grants its gifts.
The small goes, the great comes. Good fortune. Success.
The trigrams
The way back
11 Well-Being → 19 Fleeting Successline 3
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.