Hexagram 28: Great Excess澤風大過 · Dà Guò

• Upper trigram　Duì, Lake: joy, exchange and open conversation.
• Lower trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.

The Judgment

The ridgepole sags. It furthers to go somewhere. Success.

棟橈，利有攸往，亨。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

The beam is overloaded: pressure beyond the usual. Today suits checking where you are carrying too much and adjusting or sharing it early, rather than holding on by force.

Something to do today

• List your current loads and choose one to share or postpone.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.