震 → 賁
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
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.
Line 6
上六 震索索。視矍矍。征凶。震不于其躬。于其鄰。无咎。婚媾有言。
Six at the top means: Shock brings ruin and terrified gazing around. Going ahead brings misfortune. If it has not yet touched one's own body But has reached one's neighbor first, There is no blame. One's comrades have something to talk about.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
四隤不安，兵革為患。掠我妻子，家履飢寒。
Four walls crumbling, insecure; arms and war bring calamity. They seize my wife and children; the household treads through hunger and cold.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder doubled yields to mountain over fire: shock gives way to the adornment of Grace — but here the ornament is stripped away. The four quarters crumble and collapse, warfare brings calamity. Wife and children are seized, the household falls into cold and hunger. When walls fall from every direction, there is no beauty left to contemplate. Mountain over fire gives form and grace to what blazes beneath, but war reduces decoration to rubble. From The Arousing to Grace, the transformation is ironic: where there should be the elegant ordering of fire's brilliance beneath the mountain's composure, there is instead devastation. Grace under duress becomes its opposite — not beauty but the naked exposure of what remains after beauty is plundered.
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