Having Somewhere to Go

Having somewhere to go is the oracle's formula "It furthers one to have somewhere to go" — the counsel that in this situation it is favorable to set a definite goal and move toward it, rather than to remain passive. It marks times when direction itself is the remedy: standing still would let a favorable configuration slip away.

It sits naturally beside duration and return; in hexagram 32 the enduring is precisely a movement toward an end —

DURATION. Success. No blame. Perseverance furthers. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.

— and in hexagram 24 the returning light "furthers one to have somewhere to go" as the new cycle begins. The phrase thus encourages purposeful undertaking at the moment a course opens, complementing the bolder Crossing the Great Water and the patient constancy of Perseverance.