升 → 家人
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
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 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
拜跪贊辭，无益於尤。大夫頑嚚，使我生憂。
Kneeling and bowing with words of praise, yet it avails nothing against reproach. The minister is obstinate and deaf; he fills my heart with sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, but bowing, kneeling, and offering polished words of praise bring no benefit whatsoever against real misfortune. The minister is obstinate and deaf to reason, causing the ruler unending worry and grief. Wind emerging from fire, the image of the Family, prescribes that words carry substance and actions maintain constancy — the household runs on genuine communication. Yet here the household is corrupted by a stubborn official whose foolishness mocks the very rituals meant to sustain domestic order. From Pushing Upward to the Family, organic growth should mature into a well-ordered home. Instead, empty ceremony meets unyielding stupidity: the ascending wood enters a house where warmth has been replaced by the smoke of futile ritual.
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