The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 51

What does I Ching hexagram 51, Thunder, mean?

The judgment

震：亨。震來虩虩，笑言啞啞。震驚百里，不喪匕鬯。Thunder: success. Thunder comes and people tremble, then they talk and laugh. It shakes a hundred miles, and the ladle and the sacrificial wine are not dropped.Zhou Yi 周易, 震, judgment. Source

The image

洊雷，震；君子以恐懼修省。Thunder doubled. The noble person, in awe, examines and corrects themselves.Zhou Yi 周易, 震, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初九：震來虩虩，後笑言啞啞，吉。
2. Second lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
3. Third line六三：震蘇蘇，震行无眚。
4. Fourth line九四：震遂泥。
5. Fifth line六五：震往來厲，億无喪，有事。
6. Top line上六：震索索，視矍矍，征凶。震不于其躬，于其鄰，无咎。婚媾有言。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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