兌 → 升
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 和兌吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Contented joyousness. Good fortune.
Line 3
六三 來兌凶。
Six in the third place means: Coming joyousness. Misfortune.
Line 4
九四 商兌未寧。介疾有喜。
Nine in the fourth place means: Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy.
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
江河淮海，天之都市。商人受福，國家富有。
Silk goes westward; gemstones come from the east. Camel bells ring in the distance — wealth gathers like mountains.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes yield to wind growing within the earth — Pushing Upward, the steady rise of wood through soil. The original verse speaks of rivers and seas as heaven's great marketplace: merchants receive blessings and the state grows wealthy. The Yangtze, Yellow River, Huai, and Ji — the Four Great Rivers — form the arteries of commerce, and where waterways converge, wealth accumulates naturally. From The Joyous to Pushing Upward, delight in commerce is channeled into gradual, sustained growth. Wood rises through earth not by eruption but by persistent, incremental advance. National wealth built on trade routes follows the same logic — small accumulations compounding into greatness.
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