Hexagram 51 · line 1
The Arousing (Thunder)
震Zhèn
Shock arrives with fear; afterward, speech and laughter return. Favorable.
Line statement
初九
震來虩虩，後笑言啞啞，吉。
Shock arrives with fear; afterward, speech and laughter return. Favorable.
Fear is followed by laughter in Line 1, whose verdict is favorable. Its change makes Earth below Thunder, Hexagram 16. The contrast is between two Thunder trigrams and a single Thunder above Earth, setting repeated shock beside the theme of enthusiasm.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes