Hexagram 51 · line 2
The Arousing (Thunder)
震Zhèn
Shock arrives with danger, and wealth is lost in great measure. Climb the nine hills; do not pursue it. After seven days, it is regained.
Line statement
六二
震來厲，億喪貝，躋于九陵，勿逐，七日得。
Shock arrives with danger, and wealth is lost in great measure. Climb the nine hills; do not pursue it. After seven days, it is regained.
Line 2 describes lost wealth and a climb to safety, then forbids pursuit and specifies recovery after seven days. Changing it makes Lake below Thunder, Hexagram 54. That figure’s marriage imagery concerns a constrained position; the seven-day statement belongs to the present line.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes