Hexagram 46
Pushing Upward
Earth over Wind
The judgment
元亨，用见大人，勿恤，南征吉Wood climbs out of the earth and nothing above hurries it. Rising here happens one ring at a time, and a jump that skips a step leaves a weak place.
The image
A tree grows inside the earth before it shows above it. What rises from below arrives without a push.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初六Line 1
允升，大吉
Start by following someone already moving; borrowing their momentum costs less than striking out alone.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九二Line 2
孚乃利用禴，无咎
What you bring is small, but if the sincerity is real, a plain offering carries.
Marked in the textno blame
- 九三Line 3
升虚邑
The way looks open and unguarded, yet pushing into empty space leaves nothing to stand on.
- 六四Line 4
王用享于岐山，吉无咎
The king goes up Mount Qi and brings his offering; the slope is steep, yet step by step the summit is reached. At this height the work is kept inside the rites, with nothing pushed further out.
Marked in the textauspiciousno blame
- 六五Line 5
贞吉，升阶
One step at a time, no leaps, no grabbing; the position is built by the pace itself.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 上六Line 6
冥升，利于不息之贞
Still pushing forward after the direction has blurred; when stopping is impossible, spend the effort on holding your ground.
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram