震 → 泰
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
六二 震來厲。億喪貝。躋于九陵。勿逐。七日得。
Six in the second place means: Shock comes bringing danger. A hundred thousand times You lose your treasures And must climb the nine hills. Do not go in pursuit of them. After seven days you will get them back again.
Line 3
六三 震蘇蘇。震行无眚。
Six in the third place means: Shock comes and makes one distraught. If shock spurs to action One remains free of misfortune.
Line 4
九四 震遂泥。
Nine in the fourth place means: Shock is mired.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
伴跳不遠，心與言反。尼丘顧家，茅蕈朱茟。
Hopping about, not going far; heart and words at odds. Niqiu looks homeward; thatch-mushrooms and crimson bracken.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder doubled opens into earth over heaven: shock gives way to the free exchange of Peace. Leaping about but never far, the heart contradicts the words. Niqiu looks homeward — thatched eaves with vermilion rafters. Niqiu (尼丘) is Mount Ni, birthplace of Confucius, here used as a metonym for the sage himself. The verse captures someone whose actions are inconsistent — jumping restlessly yet going nowhere, speaking one thing while feeling another. Yet the mention of Niqiu turning toward home suggests a longing for the domestic warmth of thatched roofs and painted beams. From The Arousing to Peace, heaven and earth exchange freely. The restless shock settles when one returns to the place where inner and outer align — the homecoming that resolves contradiction.
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