Hexagram:The Arousing Hexagram:Dispersion

I-Ching Transformation

51
The Arousing
Zhen
Thunder / Thunder
59
Dispersion
Huan
Wind / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 4, 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 4: 震遂泥

zhènthe thunder
suìis followed by
mud

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 Windarousing to gentle
Lower TrigramThunder Waterarousing to abysmal

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 (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 59 (Dispersion). 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.