The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 46
What does I Ching hexagram 46, Climbing, mean?
升Earth 坤 above
Wind 巽 below
Hexagram 46 of the I Ching is Climbing (升), Earth over Wind. Its judgment opens “Climbing: great success.”
The judgment
升：元亨，用見大人，勿恤，南征吉。Climbing: great success. Go to see a great person, and don't worry. Setting out south brings good fortune.Zhou Yi 周易, 升, judgment. Source
The image
地中生木，升；君子以順德，積小以高大。Wood grows within the earth. The noble person follows virtue and builds up small things into tall ones.Zhou Yi 周易, 升, image. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初六：允升，大吉。
- Second line九二：孚乃利用禴，无咎。
- Third line九三：升虛邑。
- Fourth line六四：王用享于岐山，吉无咎。
- Fifth line六五：貞吉，升階。
- Top line上六：冥升，利于不息之貞。
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