Hexagram 51 interpretation in simple words. Zhen. Lightning. I Ching: Chinese Book of Changes
Excitation. Success. Thunder comes and (exclaim) - wow! And it will pass - and you will laugh: ha ha! Thunder frightens for hundreds of miles, but it will not overturn even a spoonful of sacrificial wine.
***
1. Initial nine.
From a thunderclap you become numb with fear, then - jokes and peals of laughter, happiness.
2. Six second.
Evil as thunder! Supposedly you will lose wealth, but you should not covet: you will climb nine hills and in seven days you will gain.
3. Six third.
You will be numb with fear when you hear a thunderclap, but there will be no misfortune.
4. Nine fourth.
Lightning went into silt.
5. Six fifth.
Thunder goes, but evil comes! Presumably there will be no losses, but there will be some cases.
6. Top six.
I was frightened by the thunder, began to look around - the thunder was not at my place, but at my neighbor's! Military campaign - unfortunately. You won't make mistakes, but you will say harsh words about marriage.
***
1. Initial nine.
What scares you now will not really affect your affairs and environment, you will still laugh at your fear.
2. Six second.
Now there is no time for jokes, the difficulties are real and threaten with great losses. Everything is unexpected and emotional. If you respond with an immediate negative reaction, then the problems will intensify. Raise all possible acquaintances and connections, and within a week the situation should stabilize.
3. Six third.
No matter how scary the circumstances are, go ahead, work and fulfill your duties.
4. Nine fourth.
If you live by inertia and your life is like a stagnant swamp, then stressful situations and are meant for change and purification.
5. Six fifth.
There was a lot of noise, fear, exaggeration and excitement. And now real difficulties come, they may have a different look and content than you previously expected. However, there is no time to be afraid, it is necessary to correct mistakes. The faster the better.
6. Top six.
Dangers threaten your neighbors or competitors. But conflicts and tension will not bypass you. Don't take your anger out on your family. The family should be your support and reliable rear. External troubles should strengthen the family, and not vice versa.
***
Everything you are going through right now can be called a shock. Like a bolt from the blue, the current events happened, and you need to know what they mean, what continuation of your business, relationships with loved ones and yourself. The hexagram states that all changes, in whatever harsh and unexpected form they come into your life, bring awakening, revival and change, like spring thunder.The surprise factor and fear now do not give you the opportunity to realize the usefulness of what is happening. This is how a person works: he is ready to change his life and environment only when he encounters an obstacle that cannot be bypassed. "Until the thunder breaks out, the peasant will not cross himself." The less time to normalize the situation, the faster extraordinary and talented solutions will be found. Wake up, your inspiration will wake up those around you, and together you will change the world.
A huge impact from the outside (two trigrams of Thunder) is aimed at revealing your originality, talents. You can't live your whole life in dullness, boredom and routine. The world is not like that. The losses and worries that accompany you now must be compensated. And the amount of pain from loss is equal to the amount of attachment to the object of adoration. See how much you were afraid of loss, you are so not free and dependent on things, people, activities. Instead of progress, they dragged deeper and deeper into the quagmire of monotony and dullness. So why are you pulling this cart any further?
Start a new life, build new relationships, look for new areas of application of talents, engage in the reconstruction of reliable old cases.
A shake-up in your personal life will awaken passion, sensitivity, love in you. Take a fresh look at your partner and both you and he are tired of the monotony. If it came to a breakup, you will definitely be given compensation, just don’t live according to the old scenario, don’t repeat the same thing. Life needs change!
The appearance of the hexagram Zhen in love story predicts that success awaits you very soon, and one that you have been waiting for a long time, but, unfortunately, someone really wants to prevent this, so you should gather your strength and be extremely careful in order to recognize the threat in time and adequately respond to it.
Now, more than ever, those who envy your love or your beauty, your success and so on can become more active. But in any case, their goal will be to denigrate you and prevent you from enjoying love happiness. And if you do not yet have a love relationship, then someone is trying very hard so that they do not arise. Be careful and prudent.
Also, the appearance of the Zhen hexagram indicates that in the very near future a certain event will occur in your life, which will become a reporting point for the beginning of success. The main thing is not to miss it, that is, to have time to react properly - not succumbing to the temptation to increase it, but also not to fall back into endless thoughts “what if ...”. Now, more than ever, you just need to react to the new chance of fortune in the best way that you are capable of.
If you are waiting for love, then now a person will appear with whom you can find the fullness of love feelings - so do not miss him, do everything to connect your fate with him. And if you already have love relationship, then there will be a chance to make them better, deeper and saturated with tender experiences.
In a word, you are required to be attentive and active. And do not forget, as mentioned above, someone will constantly try to interfere with you, so at the first opportunity, do it in such a way as to completely neutralize his attempts to spoil everything for you. At a minimum, try to keep everything a secret until you are sure that nothing threatens your love.
© Alexey Korneev © Alexey Kupreichik
The symbol indicates an exciting and exciting shake that will destroy everything old and unnecessary. This is a turning point for favorable change.
Your success is closer than ever before, but someone is hindering you and making efforts to prevent it from being achieved.
Don't get upset or upset about it. What you so sought to achieve and considered necessary for yourself, in fact, will turn out to be useless and not as necessary as you initially thought. Boldly and with a calm soul give it to your opponent, for you the situation will not get worse from this.
Also, an unpleasant event that will suddenly happen to you soon will not cause you tangible harm.
Now is a good time for reflection and relaxation. Take a breather and calmly think about the situation. Do not be nervous because of the circumstances around you, which are developing this way and not otherwise.
Better times will come soon, a little later fate will smile at you.
For the interpretation of the next hexagram, go to the page.
Explanation to the interpretation of hexagram 51. Awakening
If the answer of the ancient Chinese oracle is not fully understood and seems vague to you, read the explanation for the hexagram, which contains the main idea of the message, this will help you better understand the oracle of ancient China.
The answer to the question is Zhen - Awakening (excitement, lightning, thunder).
The hieroglyph depicts a combination of a sign of excitement and rain.
Shake, wake up; excite, inspire. Shock, awe, fear. Lightning, thunder, earthquake. start, set in motion; majestic, intimidating. influence, influence; act, work; germinate from a bud, hatch from a cocoon.
Semantic connections of hexagram 51. Zhen
Read the associative interpretation, and your intuition and creative thinking help you understand the situation in more detail.
Figuratively, this hexagram can be represented as symbolizing a surge of violent energy and a shake that brings new love and life. Things are awakening to action. Shaking destroys everything unnecessary and old. The shock may seem scary at first, but it will pass and laughter and fun will follow. This is a decisive and turning point of change for the better. Resist the influence of momentary emotions and focus on gratitude to the Spirits. Your offerings to the Spirits and all other actions should be a reflection of your highest aspirations.
Interpretation of the hexagram in the translation of the canonical text of the Book of Changes
Read the translation of the canonical text, perhaps you will have your own associations in the interpretation of the fifty-first hexagram.
[(Excitement.) Accomplishment.
Lightning comes and (exclaim) - wow! (and it will pass - and) you will laugh: ha-ha!
Lightning frightens hundreds of miles away, but it won't knock over even a spoonful of sacrificial wine!]
I. Nine at the beginning.
Lightning comes... wow! And you will pass and laugh: ha ha!
- Happiness!
II. Six second.
When lightning comes, it is terrible.
[You can] lose your wealth a hundred thousand times, but you will rise to the ninth height.
- Don't run! In seven days [and so] you will receive!
III. Six third.
Get lost in lightning! But, like lightning, act - and you will not cause trouble!
IV. Nine fourth.
Lightning hits the silt.
V. Six fifth.
Lightning comes and goes. Terrible!
Even if you [came] for the hundred thousandth time, you will not lose the ability to act.
VI. Top six.
(If) From the lightning you lose your self-control and [you will] look around fearfully.
- A hike - unfortunately.
If it does not yet concern you yourself, but only your neighbors, then there will be no blasphemy.
“Even marriage will be talked about.
Select number of hexagram 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4 2 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 and see its interpretation below
Book of Changes - interpretation of hexagram No. 51
Zhen. Excitation (Lightning)
The previous situation was static. It is replaced by the maximum dynamism that is characteristic of this situation. The very name Excitation and its image - lightning indicate the dynamism of this situation. This is the most dynamic of all the situations indicated in the Book of Changes. It symbolizes the development that can come after not only the renewed forces have been accumulated, but also renewed and remelted. In addition, this hexagram consists of a repetition of the Zhen trigram, which, according to family symbolism, denotes the eldest son. The eldest son is the one who, inheriting from his father, is forced to further develop the work begun by his father. Therefore, it is precisely the action that awaits him, and he will achieve the accomplishment that the text speaks of. However, the dynamics itself, the movement itself, the energetic intervention in life environment don't just pass. And therefore, at the beginning of the onset of this situation, the dynamics may seem to a person as something greatly changing the circumstances, something shaking them to their foundations, and only at the end, after the completion of this situation, if it is carried out correctly, a certain satisfaction can come. Here the Book of Changes expresses this in the form of lightning. When lightning "comes" it frightens a person. If he has already heard and seen her, then he himself remains unharmed and fear is replaced by joy. In addition, lightning is visible from afar. This symbolizes the fact that it means intense active activity, capturing very wide circles. And yet, the danger inherent in lightning, if the situation is properly handled, cannot have a bad effect even in small things. In this sense, the main aphorism of this situation is understood:
Excitation.
Accomplishment.
[And it will pass, and] you will laugh: ha ha!
Lightning frightens for hundreds of miles.
[But she] will not knock over [and] spoons of sacrificial wine.
1. In this situation, the first position is the main one. Here occurs immediately, without any warning, the first lightning strike. It is here that we find that first blow, which is most frightening. Therefore, the aphorism about fear is repeated again. But here a reminder is given that this fear, if the lightning is realized and seen, will not lead to a bad consequence. So the text says:
Strong in the beginning.
Lightning comes, [and exclaim]: Wow!
[A] will pass, and you will laugh: ha ha!
Happiness.
2. Following a lightning strike, a person may feel fear. Of course, this position is dangerous. And since the impulse of the first line is very strong here, it is impossible to move back to it. You can only move on, forward. At the moment of such dynamics, which is meant in the first position, any movement back would be a complete break with the conditions surrounding a person, would lead him to the loss of everything that he has. But here, if he continues to move steadily forward, even if he loses everything that he has countless times, this should not be taken care of, one should steadily move on. Such movement can lead to highest success. A person can reach the last heights, which are called in the language of the "Book of Changes" the "ninth height." But such a movement must be exclusively impulsed by man's own forces. Chasing after something, i.e. to see some goal in front of oneself means already to defend oneself from this goal. Therefore, here the Book of Changes, warning that in the end everything will be achieved, says:
Weak trait in second [place].
[When] lightning comes, [it] is terrible.
[You can] a hundred thousand [times] lose your wealth,
[but] you will rise to the ninth height.
Do not chase - [in] seven days [and so] you will receive.
3. The moment of transition from inner to outer life is when a person can lose confidence in his actions. Particularly in a situation such as this one, this perplexity can manifest itself with particular force; in order not to be caught unawares, it is also necessary not to change the principle of unswerving action and striving forward here, because otherwise a person himself can invite misfortune that was not predetermined by the situation. The text says it this way:
Weak trait in third [place].
You get lost in lightning.
[But, like] lightning, act and do not [call] trouble.
4. The impulse itself develops, from the point of view of the authors of the Book of Changes, in waves. One lightning strike is followed by another. But the second blow is already only an echo of the first, in which all the power is concentrated. It is a blow to that which does not offer sufficient resistance and which absorbs the force of the blow without the effect of this blow being evident. Lightning strikes something inert, soft, pliable, in which only the force of impact is lost. Such a repeated weakened blow "Book of Changes" clothes in the following image:
Strong trait in fourth [place].
Lightning hits the silt.
5. Both the second position and the fifth speak of the possibility of loss, for these are positions corresponding to each other, with the only difference that the second characterizes the inner life, and the fifth characterizes the outer. But the run-up, the dynamics that were already in the previous positions, lead to the fact that in the fifth position of the development of this situation, despite all its danger, there is still an opportunity to get out and get out skillfully from the situation in which life put a person in this case. . In this sense, the Book of Changes says:
Weak trait in fifth [place].
Lightning comes and goes.
Terrible.
[Although for] the hundred thousandth [time], you will not lose the ability to act.
6. Both in the third position and in the sixth, which stands in accordance with it, a person with a second blow can be seized by fear and confusion. However, there, in the third position, he had the possibility of further development of this situation. The lightning strike was felt even more strongly, and therefore the person's fear could be more justified. Here, however, such a fright, when a lightning strike is very far from the place occupied by a given person, can only be perceived as excessive fearfulness, which is understandable, because the sixth position represents excess. Therefore, if a person here falls into confusion and fear, then any of his further actions and performances can be completely spoiled. In order not to fall into this fear, one must keep in mind that the main lightning strike is far away, that it does not in any way affect the acting person himself, but only his neighbors. In addition, here we meet the position in which the dynamics of the whole given situation already permeates the entire environment of a person and even touches his life. If there are no strong shocks, then, in any case, there will be at least talk and talk. That is why we read in the text:
Above is a weak feature.
From the lightning you will lose your self-control [and you will] look around fearfully.
Hike - unfortunately.
[But] lightning does not touch you, [but only] your neighbors.
There will be no bullshit.
[But even about] marriage there will be talk.
This hexagram often falls out to us when significant and promising changes are coming. They occur unexpectedly and awaken from stagnation and apathy. They may be associated with the loss of a job or an old friend, separation from dear people due to circumstances beyond your control, with a divorce or breakup, or the sudden realization that you are no longer young or healthy. The essence of such experiences lies in the fact that these circumstances impose new restrictions and losses, sometimes perceived as punishment.
The yang energy (the bottom line in both trigrams) gave way for a long time to the yin energy (the second and third lines in both trigrams). Now she exploded out, causing shock and respect. All relationships with the cosmos and society, as well as within you, suddenly gained a second wind.
Although life goes better in a state of harmony, a shock is sometimes necessary to eliminate lethargy and apathy. The purpose of the thunder in the sky is to awaken and start conscious meaningful actions. In this case, it symbolizes the true grace of the divine forces. The thunder that brings us out of apathy can appear in the psychological or social sphere in the form of a father, an experienced friend, a significant book, a spiritual Master, or our True Self, suddenly emerging from the secret depths of the subconscious.
In everyday life, this hexagram indicates that many difficulties have accumulated around us, the situation itself has become unstable, full of unpleasant surprises, but these changes are only for the better. If you carefully take the necessary actions, gradually, step by step, then you will overcome difficulties, and the changes will be effective and productive. You will reach your goal even in a situation resembling a thunderstorm. You can suddenly become famous successful business or get support influential people. Passivity will only lead to failure. Acting on the contrary, that is, relying on old prejudices and addictions, you will attract bad luck.
As a result, as soon as you find yourself in such a SHOCKING situation described by this hexagram, do not lose your head. Stay calm and constantly remind yourself that fate is giving a sign, forcing us to reconsider our actions and become stronger. However, the most important thing is that it gives a chance to stay on the Path of spiritual growth, that is, to be in harmony with cosmic movements. With the right attitude, we can achieve this.
Wish
If you act deliberately, you can overcome obstacles and fulfill your desire.
Love
There are many obstacles to overcome, but perseverance will bring success.
Marriage
If this is the first marriage, then the chances of creating a harmonious relationship are small. Entering into a new marriage will bring much more success.
Pregnancy, childbirth
During the period of pregnancy and childbirth, there will be some problems. A boy will be born.
Health status
There is a chance that a long-standing illness will reassert itself. She is serious. Recovery will be gradual. Neuralgia, brain diseases, nervous disorders and high pressure. The initial period of the disease will be the most serious.
Negotiations, disputes, litigation
Stand firm in your positions. Do not offer and do not compromise yourself, luck is on your side.
Journey
A trip to the south is favorable, things are different with the east. A surprise may await you on the road, but it will not interfere with the fulfillment of the purpose of the trip.
Exam, test
Although other problems bother you besides anxiety, the score will exceed your expectations.
Work, business, specialization
you can try to implement the plan, but on the condition that you do not use force.
Weather
Changeable, possible thunderstorms.
lucky color
Green, blue, black.
lucky numbers
4, 8, 3
Changing Traits
sixth
A series of scandalous events, in the center of which you will find yourself, will not only shock your friends, but also cause a complete mess. If panic seizes you and you lose your inner balance, then expect trouble. Friends are unable to help. Even though others may see you as heartless and criticize your harshness, remove yourself from the situation. Such action is justified!
Fifth
Shocks occur one after another, as if they have no end, posing a serious threat and incurring losses. The I Ching usually calls for masculinity, but in this situation a little fear is not so bad.
Stay passive and things will eventually clear up.
Fourth
You are not ready for a scandalous event. You are now in its center, completely isolated, and it seems that everything is gone. Your ego betrayed you once again. The only way out is to maintain inner peace and refrain from acting during this period.
Third
In the third line, the classical text says the following: “The one who is frightened by Thunder cannot make decisions calmly. Be reasonable and correct your behavior. It's not such a big problem." Direct all your efforts to achieve self-control in this situation, try to calmly find a solution to the problem. While you are scared and excited, do not take any steps.
Second
You are at the center of a scandalous event. A serious threat looms, you can lose privileges, status or property. Try your best to resist these forces, but do not get into dangerous situations and don't forget about self-control and reflection. With such a wise attitude, you will restore everything that was lost. Instead of suffering losses, you will gain success.
First (dominant)
You are shocked by an unexpected event. The natural reaction will be excitement and intense fear. However, don't panic! You need to experience this event. Stay calm, your tension will come into balance, and the outcome will be positive.