需 → 升
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Line 1
初九 需于郊。利用恆。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: Waiting in the meadow. It furthers one to abide in what endures. No blame.
Line 5
九五 需于酒食。貞吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: Waiting at meat and drink. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
凶子禍孫，把劍向門。凶訟讙囂，驚駭我家。
Vicious son, ruinous grandson; grasping sword, facing the gate. Violent dispute and uproar; they terrify my household.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Clouds above heaven meet wood growing upward through the earth in Pushing Upward — yet what rises here is violence, not virtue. Wicked sons and cursed grandsons brandish swords at the gate. Lawsuits rage with shouting and clamor, terrifying our household. The verse inverts Pushing Upward's promise of gradual, organic ascent: instead of a tree growing steadily from the earth, armed descendants menace the family threshold. 'Pushing upward' becomes the escalation of domestic conflict into armed threat. From Waiting to Pushing Upward, the nourishment that should have produced an ordered household instead produces feral offspring whose rising is not growth but aggression — the family's own increase turned against itself.
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