豫 → 升

Commentary

Thunder breaks from the earth, but what fills the air is empty talk, not substance. Words outnumber deeds; promises cannot be honored. The wine vessel stands empty — no wine to pour — while rumors fly thick as rain. The verse depicts an environment of hollow rhetoric: grand gestures without backing, like a banquet announced with empty cups. From Enthusiasm to Pushing Upward, the contrast is instructive. Pushing Upward shows wood growing within the earth, the gentleman accumulating small gains into great stature. Yet the verse's subject has reversed this process — inflating claims while depleting substance. Enthusiasm that spends itself in words alone cannot push upward through the slow, patient growth the hexagram demands.