升 → 否
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 孚乃利用禴。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: If one is sincere, It furthers one to bring even a small offering. No blame.
Line 3
九三 升虛邑。
Nine in the third place means: One pushes upward into an empty city.
Line 4
六四 王用亨于岐山。吉。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The king offers him Mount Ch'i. Good fortune. No blame.
Line 5
六五 貞吉升階。
Six in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. One pushes upward by steps.
Line 6
上六 冥升。利于不息之貞。
Six at the top means: Pushing upward in darkness. It furthers one To be unremittingly persevering.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
時凋歲霜，君子疾病。宗女无辜，鄭受其殃。
The season withers, the year brings frost; the noble lord falls ill. The daughter of the clan, blameless, yet Zheng suffers the calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, but frost descends and the season turns to decay. The gentleman falls ill; a blameless noblewoman of the royal clan suffers innocently, and the state of Zheng bears the undeserved disaster. The 'Zong Nu' — a princess or noblewoman married into another state for alliance — becomes the innocent victim of political misfortune beyond anyone's control. Time itself turns hostile: the season withers, the body weakens, and an allied state absorbs the punishment that belongs elsewhere. Heaven over earth with no exchange between them, the image of Standstill. From Pushing Upward to Standstill, the ascending impulse meets total blockage. What should grow is frozen; what should communicate falls silent.
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