I Ching · Hexagram 28
Dà Guò: Preponderance of the Great
The ridgepole is heavy in the middle and weak at the ends, ready to bend. Da Guo is a moment of too much weight, which calls for an exceptional step rather than business as usual.
- Keywords
- Pressure, overload, bold action, turning point
- Upper trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Lower trigram
- Wind (Xun)
- Advice
- Lighten the load or change course decisively; waiting will not ease the strain.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.