泽风大过

Hexagram 28, Da Guo (Great Excess), is Lake over Wind - water rising above the trees, the lake overflowing its bounds, the ridgepole bending under an impossible weight. This is the hexagram of crisis, of a moment when the ordinary structures cannot bear the load. The judgment: 'the ridgepole sags. It furthers one to have somewhere to go' - when the weight is too great, act decisively, do not stand still. The lines trace the crisis: white rushes spread beneath, the dry poplar sprouting, the sagging ridgepole, and the final line that goes through the water, even at risk of drowning. Da Guo teaches that extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures, taken with courage.