Influence: success. Perseverance furthers. To take a maiden to wife brings good fortune. The lake rests atop the mountain — the strong stoops beneath the joyous, and the youngest son courts the youngest daughter: this is the hexagram of wooing, of mutual attraction, of influence that works because it is felt, not forced. All true influence begins as receptivity.
A lake on the mountain: the superior person encourages people to approach by their readiness to receive them. The mountain that holds a lake at its summit keeps itself hollow at the top — influence flows to those who keep themselves open.
Attraction is the operating force in your situation — between people, certainly (this is the great courtship hexagram, auspicious for love and partnership), but equally in any sphere where you would move others. The teaching is exact: influence by openness, not pressure — make yourself genuinely receptive and approachable, and the response arises of itself. Keep the inner mountain still while the surface lake responds; stability beneath, sensitivity above. What is wooed now, gently and constantly, becomes lasting union.
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