Di Ze Lin (Earth over Lake)
Upper: Kun / Lower: Dui
Earth
Oversight and Leadership
Primordial success, benefit, and correctness. There will be misfortune by the eighth month.
The earth is above the lake: Lin; the noble person thus teaches and thinks without end, and embraces and protects the people without boundaries. — Above the lake water is the great earth, symbolizing oversight; the noble person should teach the people with endless thought, and embrace and protect them without limits.
The Lin hexagram symbolizes overseeing from above, leadership, and supervision. In career matters, one is in a position of leadership and should win people over with virtue; in relationships, one should take the initiative to care for the other; in decision-making, one should seize the present good opportunity, but knowing that extreme prosperity leads to decline, one should prepare in advance.
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