小畜 → 震
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 牽復。吉。
Nine in the second place means: He allows himself to be drawn into returning. Good fortune.
Line 3
九三 輿說輻。夫妻反目。
Nine in the third place means: The spokes burst out of the wagon wheels. Man and wife roll their eyes.
Line 4
六四 有孚。血去惕出。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: If you are sincere, blood vanishes and fear gives way. No blame.
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。富以其鄰。
Nine in the fifth place means: If you are sincere and loyally attached, You are rich in your neighbor.
Line 6
上九 既雨既處。尚德載。婦貞厲。月幾望。君子征凶。
Nine at the top means: The rain comes, there is rest. This is due to the lasting effect of character. Perseverance brings the woman into danger. The moon is nearly full. If the superior man persists, Misfortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
君子碌碌，鳥庇茂木。見春百穀，心勞願德。
The noble man labors diligently; the bird shelters in thick trees. Seeing spring is hundred grains; the heart toils, longing for virtue.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven descends into doubled thunder — the Arousing's seismic awakening. The gentleman toils steadily; birds shelter in the dense forest canopy. Spring reveals the hundred grains; the heart labors but yearns for virtue. From Small Taming to the Arousing, gentle accumulation gives way to the shock that demands self-examination. Zhen's doubled thunder is heaven's alarm clock — the sage responds with reverent self-correction. The gentleman working among the sprouting grains, the birds finding refuge in thick branches: both embody the productive response to shock. Spring arrives not as gentle transition but as thunderous eruption, and the one who has labored through winter greets it with readiness. Wishing for virtue amid toil — this is Zhen's true awakening.
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