泰 → 震
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
九二 包荒。用馮河。不遐遺。朋亡。得尚于中行。
Nine in the second place means: Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness, Fording the river with resolution, Not neglecting what is distant, Not regarding one's companions: Thus one may manage to walk in the middle.
Line 3
九三 无平不陂。无往不復。艱貞无咎。勿恤其孚。于食有福。
Nine in the third place means: No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger Is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
Line 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
南國少子，才略美好；求我長女，賤薄不與；反得醜惡，後乃大悔。
A young man from the southern realm, talented and fine. He seeks our eldest daughter; deeming him lowly, we refuse. Instead we get an ugly match; later comes great regret.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's matchmaking goes awry. A talented and handsome youth from the southern kingdom seeks one's eldest daughter in marriage. Yet the offer is refused as beneath her station. Instead, a less worthy match is accepted — and the family bitterly regrets it afterward. The verse is a parable of misjudged value: a good suitor is dismissed through snobbery, and the replacement brings only grief. From Peace to The Arousing, doubled thunder shakes the world, inspiring self-examination through shock. The transformation suggests that the regret itself is the thunder: a startling realization that one's own pride has produced the disaster, not fate.
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