Hexagram 28 · line 6
Preponderance of the Great
大過Dà Guò
Crossing beyond measure, the water covers the head. Misfortune, yet no fault.
Line statement
上六
過涉滅頂，凶，无咎。
Crossing beyond measure, the water covers the head. Misfortune, yet no fault.
The crossing covers the head at Line 6, yet the text separates misfortune from fault. A firm top changes Lake into Heaven, producing Hexagram 44, where one yielding line remains beneath five firm ones.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes