震 → 巽
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初九 震來虩虩。後笑言啞啞。吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Shock comes–oh, oh! Then follow laughing words–ha, ha! Good fortune.
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.
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
心得所好，口常為笑。公孫蛾眉，雞鳴樂夜。
The heart finds what it loves; the mouth is always smiling. The lord's lady with moth-brow beauty; the cock crows and she delights in the night.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder doubled meets doubled wind: shock gentled into the pervasive influence of The Gentle. The heart finds what it loves; the mouth is always smiling. 'Gongsun of the moth-brows' — delighting in the crowing of cocks through the night. The 'moth-brows' (蛾眉) is a classical epithet for a beautiful woman, and 'delighting in cock-crow at night' (雞鳴樂夜) echoes the Shijing ode 'Ji Ming' from the Qi Winds, where a wife urges her husband to rise at dawn for court. Here the night itself is the pleasure — lingering in intimacy rather than attending to duty. From The Arousing to The Gentle, doubled wind, the verse shows thunder's intensity softened into tender, penetrating intimacy. What enters gently pervades completely — for better or worse.
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