䷭Hexagram 46 Ascending as a yes-or-no answer

As an answer to a yes-or-no question Sheng says yes, and says it generously: 'great success', 'no anxiety', 'a march south brings good fortune'. The thing you are asking about is an advance, and the time supports it. The one qualification is the Great Image's 'piling up the small': yes to sequential progress; no to a leap. If the question is whether to skip a step, the hexagram's answer is to take the step.

A changing line in the lower trigram, Xun, says go, with a note on how: line one says start while you are welcomed, line two says bring sincerity rather than show, line three says the way is clear but you must police yourself. A changing line in the upper trigram, Kun, turns the question to how far: line four says yes to serving at the height you have reached, not to going higher; line five says yes by the proper stairs; the top line says no — you are past the point where further ascent is gain, and the only yes left is to hold steady.