升 → 震
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).
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.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
當變立權，擿解患難。渙然冰釋，六國以寧。
Meeting change, one establishes authority and untangles every hardship. Dissolving like melting ice, the six states find peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, and decisive authority is established at the critical moment to unravel entangled crises and resolve impossible deadlocks. Accumulated tensions dissolve like ice in spring; the six states find peace at last. The classical expression 'dissolving like ice' (渙然冰釋) describes the sudden, complete resolution of difficulties that had seemed intractable. The 'six states' may evoke the Warring States confederacies whose conflicts required a master strategist's intervention to untangle. Doubled thunder, the image of the Arousing, shocks the world awake with its repeated blows. From Pushing Upward to the Arousing, patient accumulation explodes into decisive action. What grew slowly now moves with the speed and force of double thunder.
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