The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 28

What does I Ching hexagram 28, Too Much, mean?

The judgment

大過：棟橈，利有攸往，亨。Too much: the ridgepole sags. It pays to set out. Success.Zhou Yi 周易, 大過, judgment. Source

The image

澤滅木，大過。君子以獨立不懼，遯世无悶。The lake floods the trees. The noble person stands alone without fear, and leaves the world without gloom.Zhou Yi 周易, 大過, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初六：藉用白茅，无咎。
2. Second line九二：枯楊生稊，老夫得其女妻，无不利。
3. Third line九三：棟橈，凶。
4. Fourth line九四：棟隆，吉。有它吝。
5. Fifth line九五：枯楊生華，老婦得其士夫，无咎无譽。
6. Top line上六：過涉滅頂，凶，无咎。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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