Judgment
— I Ching · classical
亨。震来虩虩，笑言哑哑。震惊百里，不丧匕鬯。
Shock brings success. Shock comes — oh, oh! Laughing words — ha, ha! The shock terrifies for a hundred miles, and one does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.
Image
— Great Image
洊雷，震，君子以恐惧修省。
Thunder repeated: the image of shock. Thus in fear and trembling the superior person sets their life in order and examines themselves.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Initial Nine · 初九
⚊ yang
震来虩虩，后笑言哑哑，吉。
Shock comes — oh, oh! Then follow laughing words — ha, ha! Good fortune.
Initial terror gives way to laughter and clarity — fortune through correct response to the shock.
Six in the second · 六二
⚋ yin
震来厉，亿丧贝，跻于九陵。勿逐，七日得。
Shock comes bringing danger. A hundred thousand times you lose your treasures and must climb the nine hills. Do not go in pursuit of them. After seven days you will get them back.
Vast loss in the shock; climb to high ground; do not chase the lost. Seven days (one cycle), they return.
Six in the third · 六三
⚋ yin
震苏苏，震行无眚。
Shock comes and makes one distraught. If shock spurs to action, one remains free of misfortune.
Shaken into confusion; if the shock provokes corrective action, no misfortune.
Nine in the fourth · 九四
⚊ yang
震遂泥。
Shock is mired.
Shaken yet stuck in the mud; resolve too weak to convert shock into action.
Six in the fifth · 六五
⚋ yin
震往来厉，亿无丧，有事。
Shock goes hither and thither. Danger. However, nothing at all is lost. Yet there are things to be done.
Shocks coming from every direction; danger held in centered balance; nothing essential lost; ceremonial duties continue.
Six at the top · 上六
⚋ yin
震索索，视矍矍，征凶。震不于其躬，于其邻，无咎。婚媾有言。
Shock brings ruin and terrified gazing around. Going ahead brings misfortune. If it has not yet touched one's own body but has reached one's neighbor first, there is no blame. One's comrades have something to talk about.
Paralyzed by terror; if forewarned by neighbor's calamity, one stays safe — though comrades gossip.
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Sudden black swan (policy reversal, executive walkout, cyber-attack). Leader must be the anchor — 'bu sang bi chang' — calmly issuing instructions per playbook.
Psychology & Cognition
'When the mountain crumbles before him, his face does not change.' Shock is the proving ground of psychological stability; calm down fast, reconstruct the causal chain.
Decision Guidance
First terror, then laughter (line 1). Examine self (kong ju xiu sheng); do not chase lost treasures (line 2); pick up the dropped chalice — or rather, never drop it.
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
Nassim Taleb's 'antifragile' under shocks; Bessel van der Kolk on integrating trauma; the Stoic premeditatio malorum (rehearsing disaster in advance); Boyd's OODA loop accelerated under fire; Sully Sullenberger landing on the Hudson.
· All texts here come from public-domain editions of the I Ching and supporting commentary.
· Anygua does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· The same input via the same method will always reproduce the same hexagram — verifiable below.