家人 → 震

Commentary

Wind from fire directs the family eastward with a yellow cow and a red calf, but the journey goes badly wrong. The ox breaks its horn heading east — an ominous sign of diminished power. The traveler hoped to gain a hundred ewes but instead loses his own sack. The broken horn is a potent symbol: the ox's weapon and tool of dominance, snapped by misdirected force. What was intended as a profitable trade expedition ends in net loss. From The Family to The Arousing, doubled thunder shakes the earth with sudden force. The Arousing startles but also clarifies; the shock of loss forces a reckoning. The family that overreaches in pursuit of gain discovers that thunder does not reward greed — it strips away pretension and leaves only what is genuine.