訟 → 震
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 不永所事。小有言。終吉。
Six at the beginning means: If one does not perpetuate the affair, There is a little gossip. In the end, good fortune comes.
Line 2
九二 不克訟。歸而逋其邑。人三百戶。无眚。
Nine in the second place means: One cannot engage in conflict; One returns home, gives way. The people of his town, Three hundred households, Remain free of guilt.
Line 5
九五 訟。元吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: To contend before him Brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上九 或錫之鞶帶。終朝三褫之。
Nine at the top means: Even if by chance a leather belt is bestowed on one, By the end of a morning It will have been snatched away three times.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天地配享，六位光明。陰陽順序，以成和平。
Sun and moon shine together across the eight directions; stars keep their stations without interference. The four seasons turn like a wheel — fair winds and timely rain fill every granary.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, yet here the cosmos aligns in perfect harmony. Heaven and earth partake of shared offerings; the six positions shine with light. Yin and yang follow their proper sequence, achieving peace and equilibrium. This verse uses the original text, as the modern rewrite replaces its cosmological depth with a simplified image. From Conflict to The Arousing, doubled thunder shakes the world — yet when thunder comes in its proper season, it is not destruction but renewal. The verse captures the Arousing's ideal: cosmic forces that might clash instead calibrate into rhythm. When each of the six positions — the lines of the hexagram — radiates its proper light, the thunder that follows is not conflict but the sound of a universe in order.
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