Hexagram 46 · line 4
Pushing Upward
升Shēng
The king makes an offering at Mount Qi. Favorable. No fault.
Line statement
六四
王用亨于岐山，吉，无咎。
The king makes an offering at Mount Qi. Favorable. No fault.
The king’s offering at Mount Qi marks a ritual act within the ascent. Changing Line 4 makes Thunder above Wind, Hexagram 32. The single rite can be considered alongside the theme of duration.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes