小过卦

Judgment（Original text）

亨，利贞。可小事，不可大事。飞鸟遗之音，不宜上，宜下，大吉。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

震（Thunder） · Wood

Lower trigram

艮（Mountain） · Earth

Mutual hexagram

大过 · 泽风大过

Reversed (zong)

小过 · 雷山小过

Opposite (cuo)

中孚 · 风泽中孚

How to read changing lines

When a cast produces moving lines (three of a kind with coins, or a moving line in Mei Hua time casting), classical rules set the priority. Following Zhu Xi's Yixue Qimeng:

• One line movesRead the moving line's text of this hexagram as primary
• Two lines moveRead both moving lines' texts, the upper one takes precedence
• Three lines moveCombine the Judgments of this hexagram and the changed one (ben as zhen, changed as hui)
• Four lines moveRead the two unmoved lines' texts of the changed hexagram, the lower takes precedence
• Five lines moveRead the single unmoved line's text of the changed hexagram
• Six lines moveQian and Kun use their special 'Yong' texts; other hexagrams read the changed hexagram's Judgment

The Line texts are listed in full below.

Lines（Original text）

1. Line 1初六：飞鸟以凶。
2. Line 2六二：过其祖，遇其妣；不及其君，遇其臣；无咎。
3. Line 3九三：弗过防之，从或戕之，凶。
4. Line 4九四：无咎，弗过遇之。往厉必戒，勿用永贞。
5. Line 5六五：密云不雨，自我西郊，公弋取彼在穴。
6. Line 6上六：弗遇过之，飞鸟离之，凶，是谓灾眚。