Return and Renewal

Thunder gathers quietly beneath the earth in Fù, unseen but building — this is the hexagram of a turn beginning before it's visible from the surface. The judgment describes movement without error, allies arriving without blame, a cycle completing itself and coming back around on a fixed rhythm. It's the pattern that shows up at the start of a recovery, a restart, or a return to something abandoned too early — the raw material for a new attempt is there, even if the outward signs are still faint.

The signal is mixed rather than a clear green light — the classical line texts split between favorable and cautionary, which argues for starting deliberately rather than sprinting out of the gate. The decision-facing point is pacing: this favors picking the thread back up and moving forward again, but the early stage of a return is also the easiest place to repeat whatever went wrong the first time.