否 → 震
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 拔茅茹。以其彙。貞吉。亨。
Six at the beginning means: When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Perseverance brings good fortune and success.
Line 5
九五 休否。大人吉。其亡其亡。繫于苞桑。
Nine in the fifth place means: Standstill is giving way. Good fortune for the great man. "What if it should fail, what if it should fail?" In this way he ties it to a cluster of mulberry shoots.
Line 6
上九 傾否。先否後喜。
Nine at the top means: The standstill comes to an end. First standstill, then good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
逐兔山西，利走入門；賴我仁德，獲為我福。
Chasing the hare up the western hill; profit runs in through the gate. Relying on our benevolent virtue; the catch becomes our fortune.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and earth refuse to communicate, yet one chases a rabbit west of the mountain, and the quarry runs right through one's own gate. Thanks to one's benevolent virtue, the catch becomes a blessing. From Standstill to The Arousing, Pi's frozen world shatters into doubled thunder — Zhen's jolting, galvanizing shock. The rabbit chase captures Zhen's essential dynamic: sudden, startling movement that resolves in unexpected gain. The prey does not need to be cornered; it comes to the hunter's own door. Zhen's thunder terrifies but also electrifies, and here the shock of the chase produces exactly the opposite of Pi's stagnation — a prize delivered by the very act of pursuit, rewarding virtue with fortune that arrives on its own legs.
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