升 → 豐
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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
春日新婚,就陽曰溫。喜樂萬歲,獲福有年。
A spring day, a new marriage; approaching the warmth of yang. Joy and delight for ten thousand years; blessings are attained for a long age.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, and on a spring day a new marriage fills the world with warmth and brightness. The couple turns toward the sun — 'drawing near to yang' — and the verse overflows with joy: ten thousand years of happiness, abundant harvests stretching into the future. The spring setting connects the wedding to nature's most generative season; the union itself radiates the yang warmth that makes all things flourish and multiply. Thunder and fire together, the image of Abundance, shows the convergence of brightness and movement at their absolute peak. From Pushing Upward to Abundance, the slow organic ascent culminates in the fullest possible expression of life. The wedding is that culminating moment: patient cultivation blossoming into overflowing, unreserved joy.
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