萃 → 升
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 2
六二 引吉无咎。孚乃利用禴。
Six in the second place means: Letting oneself be drawn Brings good fortune and remains blameless. If one is sincere, It furthers one to bring even a small offering.
Line 3
六三 萃如嗟如。无攸利。往无咎。小吝。
Six in the third place means: Gathering together amid sighs. Nothing that would further. Going is without blame. Slight humiliation.
Line 4
九四 大吉无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Great good fortune. No blame.
Line 5
九五 萃有位。无咎匪孚。元永貞。悔亡。
Nine in the fifth place means: If in gathering together one has position, This brings no blame. If there are some who are not yet sincerely in the work, Sublime and enduring perseverance is needed. Then remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
安子富有，東國不殃。齊鄭和親，顯比以喜。
Peaceful and prosperous; the eastern kingdom suffers no harm. Qi and Zheng are joined in friendship; manifest alliance brings joy.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to earth above wind, where wood grows steadily upward in Pushing Upward. The child of An lives in wealth, and the eastern states suffer no calamity. Qi and Zheng make peace through marriage alliance, and manifest togetherness brings joy. The verse depicts the ideal outcome of diplomatic gathering: prosperous households, untroubled states, and alliances sealed through marital bonds between Qi and Zheng, two major Spring and Autumn states that alternated between rivalry and cooperation. 'Xian bi' echoes the I-Ching hexagram Bi, 'Holding Together,' suggesting that this gathering achieves genuine solidarity. From Gathering to Pushing Upward, the assembled community rises organically, like a tree growing within the earth, its progress steady, gradual, and rooted.
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