訟 → 升
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 3
六三 食舊德。貞。厲終吉。或從王事。无成。
Six in the third place means: To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance. Danger. In the end, good fortune comes. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works.
Line 4
九四 不克訟。復即命。渝安貞。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: One cannot engage in conflict. One turns back and submits to fate, Changes one's attitude, And finds peace in perseverance. Good fortune.
Line 5
九五 訟。元吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: To contend before him Brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上九 或錫之鞶帶。終朝三褫之。
Nine at the top means: Even if by chance a leather belt is bestowed on one, By the end of a morning It will have been snatched away three times.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
憒憒不悅，憂從中出。喪我金罌，無妄失位。
Confused and displeased; worry springs from within. Losing my golden jar; displaced from my rightful position.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, and inner turmoil erupts. Confusion and displeasure; worry wells up from within. A golden vessel is lost, and without reason one's position is forfeit. The imagery mirrors the earlier verse 6-26 — domestic anxiety, treasured things slipping away — but here the loss extends to status itself. From Conflict to Pushing Upward, wood grows within the earth, rising gradually. Sheng counsels patient, incremental growth. Yet the verse describes the opposite: sudden loss, groundless displacement. The transformation implies that what was lost was never properly rooted. Pushing Upward works only when growth is organic and disciplined; without that foundation, even golden vessels cannot be held.
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