同人 → 升
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初九 同人于門。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: Fellowship with men at the gate. No blame.
Line 2
六二 同人于宗。吝。
Six in the second place means: Fellowship with men in the clan. Humiliation.
Line 4
九四 乘其墉。弗克攻。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: He climbs up on his wall; he cannot attack. Good fortune.
Line 5
九五 同人先號咷而後笑。大師克相遇。
Nine in the fifth place means: Men bound in fellowship first weep and lament, But afterward they laugh. After great struggles they succeed in meeting.
Line 6
上九 同人于郊。无悔。
Nine at the top means: Fellowship with men in the meadow. No remorse.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鳥過稻廬，甘樂𪍿鰌；雖驅不去，田畯懷憂。
Birds pass by the rice barn, delighting in grubs and loaches. Though one chases, they will not leave; the farm overseer nurses his worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship, but fellowship between birds and farmers is not always welcome. Birds descend on the grain shed, delighting in the loaches and worms of the paddy field. Though the farmer drives them away, they refuse to leave — the field overseer is filled with worry. The scene captures a common agrarian tension: birds are natural allies of the ecosystem but competitors for the harvest. From Fellowship to Pushing Upward, the transformation shifts from horizontal nuisance to vertical growth. Trees rise slowly from within the earth in Pushing Upward, accumulating small gains into great height. The farmer's worry is temporary; what pushes upward — the grain itself — will outgrow the birds' reach in time.
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