Arousing

Thunder arrives with thunder: Arousing is the hexagram of shock — sudden events that make a hundred thousand things tremble. Its entire art is in one image: the shock comes right at the man, and he does not drop his ladle. He speaks, composed, as if the thunder were birds.

The counsel is about where your centre lives: if it lives in the circumstances, every shock owns you; if it lives in something steadier, shock is weather. After the shock: hundred things return to order — but only for the one who was not scattered by the first clap.