Hexagram 28 · King Wen sequence

Hexagram 28: Great Preponderance

大過 · Da Guo

pressureexcessdecisive action

The load is unusually heavy, so ordinary maintenance may no longer be enough.

Upper and lower trigrams

Upper: Lake兌 · Dui · joyful exchangeLower: Wind巽 · Xun · gentle penetration

Reflection meaning

The load is unusually heavy, so ordinary maintenance may no longer be enough.

Acknowledge the strain, reinforce the critical point, and make the necessary adjustment before collapse chooses for you.

If this hexagram appears in a changing reading

Changing lines mark the parts of the six-line figure that move from yin to yang or yang to yin. Those changes generate a second hexagram. Oracle Mirror presents the first hexagram as the current symbolic pattern and the transformed hexagram as a second lens on the direction of change; it does not treat the second figure as a guaranteed future event.

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