The Love Oracle

Your current love situation

Your current situation can be depicted as "Influence (Wooing)" transforming into "Retreat".

In front of you lies "Lake" which transforms into "Heaven". That means that joy, pleasure, and attraction are being transformed into strength and creativity.
Behind you lies "Mountain", representing stillness and obstruction.


The Situation

31. Hsien - Influence (Wooing)
Above (in front): Tui - The Joyous (Lake)
Below (behind): Kên - Keeping Still (Mountain)




The Judgement for the Current Situation

Influence. Success.
Perseverance furthers.
To take a maiden to wife brings good fortune.


The Image for the Current Situation

A lake on the mountain:
The image of Influence.
Thus the superior man encourages people to approach him
By his readiness to receive them.


Interpretation of the Changing Line(s)

Line 6: The influence shows itself in the jaws, cheeks and tongue.


The Future

33. Tun - Retreat
Above (in front): Ch'ien - The Creative (Heaven)
Below (behind): Kên - Keeping Still (Mountain)


The Judgement for the Future

Retreat. Success.
In what is small, perseverance furthers.


The Image for the Future

Mountain under heaven: the image of Retreat.
Thus the superior man keeps the inferior man at a distance,
Not angrily but with reserve.