震 → 家人
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 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 5
六五 震往來厲。意无喪有事。
Six in the fifth place means: Shock goes hither and thither. Danger. However, nothing at all is lost. Yet there are things to be done.
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
踐履危難，脫阨去患。入福喜門，見悔大君。
Treading through peril and hardship; escaping danger, leaving calamity behind. Entering the gate of blessed joy; meeting the great lord.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder doubled meets wind over fire: shock refined into the warmth of The Family. Treading through danger and hardship, one escapes peril and leaves disaster behind. Entering the gate of blessings and joy, one is received by a great lord. The arc is a clean reversal: the first half describes traversing a landscape of hazards, the second half arrival at a place of welcome. 'Seeing a great lord who shows favor' suggests an audience with a ruler who recognizes one's trials. From The Arousing to The Family, wind emerging from fire, words carry substance and actions maintain constancy. The verse traces the journey from external chaos to domestic order — the household that provides shelter after the storm, where warmth radiates outward as steady influence.
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