震 → 渙
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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
高飛視下，貪叨所在。腐臭為患，害於躬身。
Flying high, gazing down upon what greed desires below. Rot and stench become a plague; harm befalls one's own body.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder doubled meets wind over water: shock scattered into Dispersion. Flying high and surveying below, greed fixes on what it sees. Rotting filth becomes a plague, harming one's own body. The bird of prey soaring overhead spots carrion and descends to feed — but the feast is poisoned, and what seemed like advantage becomes self-inflicted disease. Greed transforms the surveyor into the victim: the elevated perspective that should bring wisdom instead enables worse choices. From The Arousing to Dispersion, wind over water, what was concentrated scatters. The verse warns that thunder's commanding height, when directed by appetite rather than discernment, leads to contamination. Dispersion here is not liberation but the diffusion of corruption through the body.
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