Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

眾鳥所翔,中有大怪,九身无頭。魂驚魄去,不可以居。

Where the many birds soar, among them is a great horror: nine bodies without heads. Soul startled, spirit fled — one cannot dwell here.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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