Hexagram 62 · line 6
Preponderance of the Small
小過Xiǎo Guò
Failing to meet it and passing beyond; the flying bird is caught. Misfortune. This is called disaster and injury.
Line statement
上六
弗遇過之，飛鳥離之，凶。是謂災眚。
Failing to meet it and passing beyond; the flying bird is caught. Misfortune. This is called disaster and injury.
Line 6 goes beyond the meeting; the bird is caught, and the text names disaster and injury. Its change makes Fire above Mountain, Hexagram 56. The traveler’s limited foothold offers a comparison with overreaching.
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