䷡ Hexagram 34: Great Invigorating

Judgment

GREAT POWER necessitates firm correctness.

Image

Thunder in heaven above: The image of THE POWER OF THE GREAT. Do not take any step that is not in accordance with propriety.

Description
Hexagram 34 is named 大壯 (dà zhuàng), “Great Invigorating”. Other variations include “the power of the great”, great maturity. Its inner trigram is ☰ (乾 qián) force = (天) heaven, and its outer trigram is ☳ (震 zhèn) shake = (雷) thunder.