Hexagram 34 · King Wen sequence

Hexagram 34: The Power of the Great

大壯 · Da Zhuang

strengthrestraintresponsibility

Power is available, which makes restraint and right use more important than display.

Upper and lower trigrams

Upper: Thunder震 · Zhen · arousing movementLower: Heaven乾 · Qian · creative force

Reflection meaning

Power is available, which makes restraint and right use more important than display.

Act where strength is legitimate, avoid overreach, and let discipline prove the power is mature.

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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