䷛ Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Judgment

PREPONDERANCE OF THE GREAT. The ridgepole sags to the breaking point. It furthers one to have somewhere to go. Success.

Image

The lake rises above the trees: The image of PREPONDERANCE OF THE GREAT. When you stand alone, be unconcerned, and if you must renounce the world, be undaunted.

Description
Hexagram 28 is named 大過 (dà guò), “Great Exceeding”. Other variations include “preponderance of the great”, “great surpassing” and “critical mass”. Its inner trigram is ☴ (巽 xùn) ground = (風) wind, and its outer trigram is ☱ (兌 duì) open = (澤) swamp.