Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward地風升 · Shēng

• Upper trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.
• Lower trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.

The Judgment

Supreme success. Go and see the wise person; do not worry. Setting out toward the south brings good fortune.

元亨，用見大人，勿恤，南征吉。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

A tree grows up out of the earth: steady rising. Today suits building upward step by step; no need to worry about slow progress, since keeping at it is how you grow.

Something to do today

• Take one small step toward your goal today, and note it down.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.