大過

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep
Lower TrigramWind ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

涉塗履危,不利有為。安坐垂裳,乃無災殃。門戶自開,君憂不昌。

Treading mud, walking in peril; action brings no advantage. Sit at ease with robes hanging; thus avoid calamity. The gate opens of itself; the lord worries it will not prosper.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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