Hexagram 51 · line 6
The Arousing (Thunder)
震Zhèn
Shock brings trembling and an alarmed gaze. Setting out brings misfortune. The shock reaches a neighbor, not one's own body: no fault. Marriage partners have words of complaint.
Line statement
上六
震索索，視矍矍，征凶。震不于其躬，于其鄰，无咎。婚媾有言。
Shock brings trembling and an alarmed gaze. Setting out brings misfortune. The shock reaches a neighbor, not one's own body: no fault. Marriage partners have words of complaint.
The shock is observed in a neighbor rather than suffered directly, yet alarm and complaints between marriage partners remain. Changing Line 6 makes Fire above Thunder, Hexagram 21. Its theme of dealing with an obstruction offers a comparison with fear observed at a distance.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes