乾 → 升
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初九 潛龍勿用。
Nine at the beginning means: Hidden dragon. Do not act.
Line 4
九四 或躍在淵。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Wavering flight over the depths. No blame.
Line 5
九五 飛龍在天。利見大人。
Nine in the fifth place means: Flying dragon in the heavens. It furthers one to see the great man.
Line 6
上九 亢龍有悔。
Nine at the top means: Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
衛侯東遊，惑於少姬。亡我考妣，久迷不來。
The Marquis of Wei travels east, bewitched by a young lady. Losing my father and mother, long astray, he does not return.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
The Marquis of Wei travels east, bewitched by a young beauty. Parents have died; he wanders astray and never returns. This echoes the scandal of Duke Xuan of Wei, who built a New Terrace to intercept his own son's bride — an episode condemned in the Shijing ode 'Xin Tai.' From Creative to Pushing Upward, wood grows within the earth, rising gradually and steadily. Yet the verse shows upward movement perverted: instead of virtuous ascent, the lord's eastward journey is a descent into infatuation. Sheng counsels building step by step through accumulated small efforts; here, each step leads further from duty and deeper into delusion. The upward path is abandoned for lateral drift.
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