Hexagram:The Arousing Hexagram:Coming to Meet

I-Ching Transformation

51
The Arousing
Zhen
Thunder / Thunder
44
Coming to Meet
Gou
Heaven / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Line 1: 震來虩虩後笑言啞啞吉

zhènthe shock
láibrings (about)
fear
and terror
hòuand afterwards
xiàomirthful
yánwords
èand echoing
èlaughter
promising

Line 2: 震來厲億喪貝躋于九陵勿逐七日得

zhènthe thunder
láibrings (about)
difficulty
a hundred thousand
sànglost
bèibelongings
and climb
up
jiǔnine
línghill
do not
zhúpursue

Line 3: 震蘇蘇震行無眚

zhènthe thunder
awakens
and revives
zhènbe aroused
xíngto movement
and
shěngto distress

Line 5: 震往來厲意無喪有事

zhènthe thunder
wǎngin
láiand
is difficult
the meaning
is not
sànglost
yǒuhaving
shìwork to do

Line 6: 震索索視矍矍征凶震不于其躬于其鄰無咎婚媾有言

zhènthe thunder
suǒstartles
suǒand confuses
shìlooking
juéin wild-eyed
juéin terror
zhēngto expedite
xiōngis foreboding
zhènthe thunder
is not
in
one's (own)
gōngbeing
but merely in
one's (own)
línneighborhood
there is no
jiùblame
hūneven a
gòusuitor
yǒuwill
yántalk

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder Heavenarousing to creative
Lower TrigramThunder Windarousing to gentle

Yilin Verse

龍馬上山,焦无水泉。喉燋唇乾,渴不能言。

The dragon-horse climbs the mountain; it is parched, without spring or stream. Throat scorched, lips dry; in its thirst it cannot speak.

— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 51 (The Arousing) to hexagram 44 (Coming to Meet). In the I-Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.