升 → 巽
Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
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
臣尊主卑，威權日衰。侵奪无光，三家逐公。
The minister is exalted, the lord debased; authority and power wane day by day. Encroaching and seizing, dimming the light; the three houses drive out the duke.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wood grows within the earth, but the minister towers above the ruler, and royal authority withers by the day. Power is seized, brilliance stolen, and three great families drive the duke from his own state into exile. The 'three families expelling the ruler' most directly evokes the Three Huan of Lu — the Jisun, Shusun, and Mengsun clans — who usurped ducal power over generations until Duke Zhao was forced to flee in 517 BC and died abroad. Doubled wind, the image of the Gentle, commands through repeated, penetrating influence. From Pushing Upward to the Gentle, the ascending impulse is subverted: what should be the ruler's rise becomes the minister's creeping encroachment, wind eroding the throne from within until nothing remains.
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