升 → 復
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 24: Return
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Line 1
初六 允升大吉。
Six at the beginning means: Pushing upward that meets with confidence Brings great good fortune.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
飲酒醉飽，跳起爭鬭。伯喪叔僵，東家治喪。
Drinking wine, drunk and sated; they leap up and brawl. The elder brother is lost, the younger brother falls; the eastern household prepares for mourning.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, but wine transforms fellowship into carnage. Drinking to satiety, the guests leap up and brawl without restraint. The elder brother is slain, the younger collapses, and the family to the east prepares a funeral. A feast meant to celebrate becomes a bloodbath: intoxication releases the aggression that courtesy had barely restrained, and kinsmen turn on each other with lethal violence. Earth over thunder, the image of Return, shows one yang stirring beneath five yin — the first impulse of renewal after total darkness. From Pushing Upward to Return, the ascending energy reverses to its origin point. What rose through patient cultivation is demolished in a single drunken outburst, and the household must begin again from nothing.
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