大畜 → 震
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).
Line 2
九二 輿說輹。
Nine in the second place means: The axletrees are taken from the wagon.
Line 3
九三 良馬逐。利艱貞。曰閑輿衛。利有攸往。
Nine in the third place means. A good horse that follows others. Awareness of danger, With perseverance, furthers. Practice chariot driving and armed defense daily. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
Line 4
六四 童牛之牿。元吉。
Six in the fourth place means: The headboard of a young bull. Great good fortune.
Line 6
上九 何天之衢。亨。
Nine at the top means: One attains the way of heaven. Success.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
逐狐平原，水遏我前。深不可涉，暮無所得。
Chasing a fox across the plain; water blocks the way ahead. Too deep to wade; by evening, nothing is gained.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain erupts into doubled thunder — the Arousing. Chasing a fox across the open plain, one is stopped short by water blocking the path. The river is too deep to ford; by evening, one returns empty-handed. The fox — elusive, cunning — is the quarry that always slips away. The doubled thunder of the Arousing shakes everything into motion, but motion without direction produces nothing. Water cuts off the pursuit at the critical moment. From Great Taming to the Arousing, the mountain's stored heaven becomes raw kinetic energy — thunder upon thunder. The verse warns that even accumulated reserves, once converted to reckless pursuit, can be thwarted by a single impassable barrier. Patience was the strength; haste was the undoing.
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