Ta Kuo / Preponderance of the Great

above:Tui The Joyous, Lake
below:Sun The Gentle, Wind

The third [nine], undivided, shows a beam that is weak. There will be evil.

Line 3 is strong, and in an odd place. Its subject is confident in his own strength, but his correlate in 6 is weak. Alone, he is unequal to the extraordinary strain on him, and has for his symbol the weak beam.