I Ching · Hexagram 62
Xiǎo Guò: Preponderance of the Small
Thunder over the mountain sounds near but small, like a bird flying low. Xiao Guo is a time to do little things exceptionally well and to avoid reaching too high.
- Keywords
- Small matters, humility, caution, detail
- Upper trigram
- Thunder (Zhen)
- Lower trigram
- Mountain (Gen)
- Advice
- Stay low and careful; excel in small things rather than grand ones.
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.