Hexagram 62 · line 1
Preponderance of the Small
小過Xiǎo Guò
The flying bird thereby meets misfortune.
Line statement
初六
飛鳥以凶。
The flying bird thereby meets misfortune.
The flying bird in Line 1 carries an adverse verdict; the Judgment has already favored descending rather than rising. Its change makes Fire below Thunder, Hexagram 55. Abundance offers a contrast to the present figure’s preference for small undertakings.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes