Hexagram 46 · line 2
Pushing Upward
升Shēng
With trust, even a simple seasonal offering is fitting. No fault.
Line statement
九二
孚乃利用禴，无咎。
With trust, even a simple seasonal offering is fitting. No fault.
Line 2 makes sincerity, rather than the size of an offering, the condition that matters. Changing it turns lower Wind into Mountain, Hexagram 15, while Earth remains above. The comparison sets sincere service beside an image of modesty.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes