Hexagram 34: Great Power雷天大壯 · Dà Zhuàng

• Upper trigram　Zhèn, Thunder: arousal, beginnings and sudden change.
• Lower trigram　Qián, Heaven: strength, creation and the drive to move forward.

The Judgment

Perseverance furthers.

利貞。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Thunder high in the sky: great strength. Today suits acting with energy, while remembering to use your strength in the right place and not to overreach.

Something to do today

• Put your energy into the one thing most worth moving forward.

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.