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kennethreitz ce93f429a2 Add Knowledge: the vault's reference shelf, crosslinked across the site
Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes,
67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer.

- scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault:
  slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site
  links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables
  rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion
  list plus a privacy guard.
- tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and
  aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note
  (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages
  list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other
  pages get a Related Knowledge block.
- Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never
  displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid
  diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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One solid line beneath two broken — the first spark of yang shocking the dark into motion. obsidian-knowledge

Zhen

One solid line beneath two broken — the first spark of yang shocking the dark into motion.


Zhen is the trigram of Thunder, ☳: a single unbroken yang line at the bottom with two broken yin lines above it. That lone strong line at the base is the whole meaning — the first stirring of active energy pushing up from beneath the yielding, the shock that breaks a stillness. It is the Arousing, the sudden movement that sets things going: the thunderclap, the earthquake, the jolt of a decision after long hesitation. Everything it touches is put into motion.

As the eldest of Kun's children — the trigram that first received a yang line into the receptive ground — Zhen is the Eldest Son, the firstborn energy that leaps ahead. Its natural element is Wood, the springtime force of growth that bursts upward through resistance, and fittingly the Later Heaven arrangement places it in the East, the direction of sunrise and of spring, where the year's first movement begins.

In divination Zhen brings shock and awakening — an event that startles, disturbs, and ultimately mobilizes. It is rarely comfortable, but it is generative: the thunder that terrifies also announces the rain. Its counsel is to move with the arousing energy rather than freeze before it, remembering that the fright passes and leaves the ground quickened.

The Figure

Attribute Value
Glyph ☳
Image Thunder
Attribute Arousing, movement
Family Eldest son
Direction (Later Heaven) East
Nearest Element Wood
  • Kan, Gen — the middle and youngest sons
  • Xun — the eldest daughter, its counterpart among the daughters
  • Qian, Kun — the father and mother of the eight
  • Elements — the Western elements, the trigrams' cousin
  • Taoism, Trigrams