升 → 需
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 5: Waiting
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Line 1
初六 允升大吉。
Six at the beginning means: Pushing upward that meets with confidence Brings great good fortune.
Line 5
六五 貞吉升階。
Six in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. One pushes upward by steps.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
商子无良，相怨一方。引剛交爭，咎自以當。
The Shang lords lack virtue; they blame each other in their own domain. Drawing hard steel into mutual strife, they bear the fault upon themselves.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, but the merchants of Shang lack goodness and blame one another on every side. Hard force is drawn in, contention flares between them, and the blame falls squarely on those who provoked the quarrel. 'Shang' may refer to the merchant class or to the people of the Shang state whose mutual resentments bred disorder from within. Conflict erupts not from external attack but from internal friction among supposed allies who cannot govern their own grievances. From Pushing Upward to Waiting, the upward impulse encounters clouds massing over heaven — danger gathering but not yet broken. The quarrelsome must learn that waiting through conflict is wiser than escalating it into catastrophe.
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