震 → 旅
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
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
被髮八十，慕德獻服。邊鄙不聳，以安王國。
Hair unbound, at eighty years, admiring virtue, presenting tribute garments. The borderlands are not alarmed; thereby the kingdom is at peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder doubled meets fire over mountain: shock refined into the transient clarity of The Wanderer. Loose-haired elders of eighty years come to offer tribute out of admiration for virtue. The border regions cease to bristle, and the kingdom is at peace. The 'loose-haired' (被髮) people are foreign or peripheral peoples whose unbound hair marks them as outside Chinese ritual culture. Their voluntary submission at advanced age — not through conquest but through admiration — represents the ultimate triumph of moral authority. From The Arousing to The Wanderer, fire on the mountain illuminates but does not stay. The verse shows how thunder's transformative power, when expressed as moral brilliance rather than military force, draws even the remotest peoples to acknowledge the center. Peace radiates outward like fire from a mountain peak.
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