Trigram ☳

震 Zhèn

Thunder · Arousing movement

One yang line rising beneath two yin lines: thunder breaking out of the ground in spring. Its quality is movement (动), and it stands for the feet and the dragon, what sets off and stirs. It is the shock that wakes things up, and the first step taken after it.

Image
雷Thunder
Quality
动Arousing movement
Family
Eldest son
Five Phase
木Wood
Body
足the feet
Animal
龙the dragon
Early Heaven
northeast
Later Heaven
east · spring, at the equinox

Body, animal and quality: the Shuo Gua (说卦传), the Ten Wings commentary on the trigrams.

Its solar term

In the Later Heaven circle the eight trigrams mark the eight turning points of the year. 震 ☳ opens Spring Equinox.

春分Chūnfēn · Spring Equinox

The 15 hexagrams that contain it

震 above (outer)

震 below (inner)