Hexagram 51 · line 4
The Arousing (Thunder)
震Zhèn
Shock sinks into mud.
Line statement
九四
震遂泥。
Shock sinks into mud.
Shock is stuck in mud at Line 4. Its change makes Earth above Thunder, Hexagram 24, leaving a single firm line at the base. The image of a return beginning below contrasts with the present line’s arrested movement.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes