I Ching · Hexagram 34
Dà Zhuàng: The Power of the Great
Thunder high in the sky: strength is at its peak. Da Zhuang asks you to use that power rightly, since force without restraint gets stuck, like a ram caught in a hedge.
- Keywords
- Power, momentum, confidence, restraint
- Upper trigram
- Thunder (Zhen)
- Lower trigram
- Heaven (Qian)
- Advice
- Move with your strength but stay fair; real power doesn't need to push.
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.