䷽ Hexagram 62: Small Powers

Judgment

PREPONDERANCE OF THE SMALL. Success. There will be progress and attainment in small affairs, but not in great affairs. It will be advantageous to be firm and correct. It is like the song of a flying bird: It is better to descend than to ascend. In this way there will be good fortune.

Image

Thunder on the mountain: The image of PREPONDERANCE OF THE SMALL. Thus, in your conduct exceed in humility, in mourning exceed in sorrow, and in expenditure exceed in economy.

Description
Hexagram 62 is named 小過 (xiǎo guò), “Small Powers”. Other variations include Preponderance of the Small, The Symbol of Excess in Small Things, The Small get by, Slight Excess, Small Exceeding, Small Surpassing, Excess of the Small, Small gains, Conscientiousness, Smallness in Excess, Exceeding the Mean, Proliferation of Details. Its inner trigram is ☶ (艮 gèn) bound = (山) mountain, and its outer trigram is ☳ (震 zhèn) shake = (雷) thunder.