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大過

№ 28 · learning and not-knowing

Great Excess

Hexagram Great Excess shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

overloadtransitionmeasure

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

大过：栋桡，利有攸往，亨。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Great Exceeding: the ridgepole bends. It is beneficial to have somewhere to go. Free passage.

栋桡 is a structural building image; interpretation as “overload” belongs to the modern layer.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, COMMENTARY_CONTAMINATION_RISK

zhouyi-28-guaci · sha256:ac866f3ec3fd2e4af2fb8a09814ace990416b29ad9a4772875b84c8e7430b70e

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六：藉用白茅，无咎。

Initial Six: using white rushes as a mat. No blame.

白茅 is ritual/clean bedding material; “rushes” is an approximate plant term.

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zhouyi-28-line-1 · sha256:83e1c4f5176fbfa1c46e86c35a8ee8b5deedddb26e73c168f96b9f4b1a1dd414

Line 2 · 爻辭

九二：枯杨生稊，老夫得其女妻，无不利。

Nine in the Second: a withered poplar puts forth a shoot. An old man gets a young wife. Nothing is unfavorable.

稊 is a young shoot; social imagery is historical, not prescriptive.

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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

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Line 3 · 爻辭

九三：栋桡，凶。

Nine in the Third: the ridgepole bends. Misfortune.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
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zhouyi-28-line-3 · sha256:cdbabc27546f1d13da9ad67ad9e0f016c9bea2268f8ffdc616b98fbd10343b29

Line 4 · 爻辭

九四：栋隆，吉。有它吝。

Nine in the Fourth: the ridgepole rises. Auspicious. If there is something else, regret.

有它 is left intentionally open.

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zhouyi-28-line-4 · sha256:74fea88d5e9b247ef79018a49e093d0a3628bd4ec9674c4049b92d7086191daa

Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：枯杨生华，老妇得其士夫，无咎无誉。

Nine in the Fifth: a withered poplar puts forth flowers. An old woman gets a young husband. No blame; no praise.

老婦得其士夫 is socially and lexically marked; 士夫 is rendered provisionally as a younger/young husband in context. The image should remain historical rather than becoming relationship advice.

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zhouyi-28-line-5 · sha256:719743852af2c38d6194e3d56457ade2092d39226bfb34ca1b0e0382a5a6849a

Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：过涉灭顶，凶，无咎。

Top Six: exceeding in crossing; the water covers the head. Misfortune. No blame.

过涉 can mean going too far in crossing; the draft retains the physical image.

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zhouyi-28-line-6 · sha256:c50a6c47c2350c713da41733b0b4e0d0fca8d7183c8cc4c9d6ab66aa7696bba8

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳上 · Tuan Commentary I象傳上 · Image Commentary I

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of overload: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • • First read Great Excess as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Great Excess day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Great Excess asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • • Which small step fits the timing?
  • • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “Great Excess” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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