As a changing line, nine at the beginning of Peace reads as good fortune found in company rather than in solitary effort. The querent is shown grass pulled up bringing its connected stalks with it, an image of advance that succeeds because it is shared, and the reading suggests that whatever moves forward now moves together with others of like disposition, not as an isolated venture.
Flipping this line changes the lower trigram from Qian to Xun, Wood, giving Kun over Xun, the hexagram called Pushing Upward. The vigorous, connected rising of the first line gives way, on the far side of change, to a hexagram concerned with patient ascent, wood growing up through the receptive earth rather than heaven advancing to meet it. The movement is from a broad shared advance toward a narrower and slower climb, as though the earliest push of a common undertaking, once changed, becomes instead the steady effort that gains its height by degrees.
Within Peace's arc, the first line is where the hexagram's whole rising movement of yang into a position of harmony with yin begins, before any of the settled conditions the later lines describe have had time to develop. A reading landing here suggests the moment favors advancing now, together with whatever companions share the same root, since the ground ahead has not yet needed the caution the middle lines will show.