升 → 鼎
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
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 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
衣裳顛倒，為王來呼。成就東國，封受大休。
Clothes and cap thrown on in haste, the king has come to call. Achieving greatness in the eastern state, one receives a grand enfeoffment.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, and someone dresses in frantic haste — garments thrown on inside-out — answering the king's urgent summons. The eastern state is successfully established, and a great honor is conferred upon the loyal minister. The image of 'garments reversed' echoes the Shijing ode about a devoted official roused from sleep by his sovereign's call, so eager to serve that he dresses without care for appearance. Fire over wind, the image of the Cauldron, establishes proper order and solidifies the state's sacred mandate through ritual transformation. From Pushing Upward to the Cauldron, the organic ascent reaches the vessel where raw material becomes refined offering. The wood that grew patiently through earth now fuels the sacred fire of a new institutional founding.
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