漸 → 升
Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 鴻漸于磐。飲食衎衎。吉。
Six in the second place means: The wild goose gradually draws near the cliff. Eating and drinking in peace and concord. Good fortune.
Line 5
九五 鴻漸于陵。婦三歲不孕。終莫之勝。吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: The wild goose gradually draws near the summit. For three years the woman has no child. In the end nothing can hinder her. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 鴻漸于陸。其羽可用為儀。吉。
Nine at the top means: The wild goose gradually draws near the clouds heights. Its feathers can be used for the sacred dance. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
心狂老悖，聽視聾盲。正命无常，下民多孽。
Heart gone wild, old and deranged; sight and hearing, deaf and blind. The proper mandate has no constancy; the common people are mired in transgression.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over mountain descends to earth containing wind: gradual development enters the upward thrust of Pushing Upward, yet the verse depicts its inversion. The mind is wild and old age brings confusion; hearing and sight fail into deafness and blindness. Proper destiny has no constancy, and the common people multiply their transgressions. Where Pushing Upward promises steady, rooted ascent like a tree growing from the earth, the verse presents a ruler whose faculties have decayed beyond recovery. From Development to Pushing Upward, the transformation should channel gradual growth into purposeful elevation. Instead, the ruler who should be climbing has lost the very senses needed to lead. Gradual decline, unrecognized, corrupts the mechanism that should produce gradual ascent.
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