Meaning
小過 is the small exceeding, the small preponderating. Four yielding lines surround two strong ones in the middle, the reverse of key 28, and the figure is read as a bird: the strong body in the centre, the yielding lines as wings. Thunder over the mountain is a sound carried far from a height. The statement of the hexagram says small matters may be done, great ones not; a flying bird leaves its call behind; it is not fitting to go up, it is fitting to come down. Our gloss is small excess. The text is on the hexagram 62 page.
Key 62 is pair and opposite at once to key 61, trust at the centre.
The three bands
The Shadow band, Grandiosity, is the statement's 可小事, 不可大事: small affairs may be done, not great ones. It is aiming at the great when only the small is possible. The Gift band, Deference, is the Image, 君子以行過乎恭: the noble person in conduct leans a little too far towards respect. The Siddhi band, Nearness, is the statement's 不宜上宜下: not fitting to go up, fitting to come down, staying close to the ground and to what is at hand.
So the key moves from overreaching ambition to careful respect to an unpretentious closeness. It describes a quality, not anyone's prospects.
In a profile
Key 62 belongs to no particular row. It stands in a profile wherever one of the thirteen bodies stood between 20°45′ Cancer and 26°22′30″ Cancer at birth or at the design moment, and so it can fill any of the thirteen rows or the three further tags.
The Sun passes through it each year from about 13 to 18 July. People born then have key 62 as their Life's Work and its opposite, key 61, as their Evolution, the Earth's place. For people born about three months later, from about 12 to 17 October, it is the Radiance, where the Sun stood at the design moment.
Each of its six lines is 56′15″ wide. A position from 20°45′ Cancer is in line 1, read by our theme Foundation; one from 25°26′15″ Cancer is in line 6, Overview. Every key's lines take the same six themes of ours, and the line of a fast body like the Moon depends on the birth time to the hour.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Hexagram and number
- 小過 Xiǎo Guò, hexagram 62 in the received (King Wen) order of the Zhouyi; Legge (1882) writes the name Hsiâo Kwo sourced
- Trigram images
- Mountain below, Thunder above, as the Shuo Gua names them sourced
- Our gloss
- small excess: EsoTerrier's own, the same in our I Ching chart, not a translator's title our construction
- Our words for the three bands
- Grandiosity, Deference and Nearness, written in October 2026 from the hexagram's own texts; none is one of Rudd's words our construction
- Opposite on the wheel
- Key 61, 180° round the wheel, with every line reversed; Rudd calls it the programming partner sourced
- Pair in the received order
- Key 61, which here is also the opposite: the received order pairs the two by reversing every line sourced
- Within and upside down
- Lines 2 to 5 give 28 大過 Dà Guò; turned upside down the figure is unchanged sourced
- Codon ring (Rudd)
- Rudd groups this key in his Ring of No Return, which he ties to tyrosine: his grouping and his choice of amino acid, not a finding of genetics sourced
- Place on the wheel
- Gate 62 of Ra Uru Hu's wheel (1987 to 1989), 20°45′ Cancer to 26°22′30″ Cancer (110.75° to 116.375° of tropical longitude): a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced
How the schools read it
- The Zhouyi, after Legge (1882)
- Progress and attainment; advantage in firmness; small things may be done, not great; a bird on the wing leaves a sound and should descend rather than rise; great good fortune. The text in full is on the hexagram 62 page.
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu, 1987 onward)
- Gate 62, in the Throat centre. The parent system gives the gate its own name and reading, which are Jovian Archive's and which we do not give here.
- Richard Rudd, The Gene Keys (2009)
- Key 62, read at three bands he calls the Shadow, the Gift and the Siddhi, each with a word of his own, under a chapter title of his own; we reproduce neither. He names key 61 its programming partner.
- EsoTerrier
- A time for small things: it aims at the great when only the small is possible, offers a little more respect than seems needed, and at its peak stays close to the ground and to what is at hand.
Claims about it
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Key 62 is a code held in the genes, and contemplating it changes how they are expressed.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: The central metaphor of Rudd's system, given by its author, not a finding. The profile is the positions of thirteen bodies at two moments, read on a 64-part wheel; no gene, codon or measurement of the body enters it.
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Key 62 belongs to the Ring of No Return, a chemical family in the body tied to tyrosine.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: Rudd's grouping. His ring sizes follow the real number of codons per amino acid in the genetic code, but which hexagram goes with which codon is his own choice, and nothing in genetics links a hexagram to an amino acid.
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The place of key 62 on the zodiac, 20°45′ Cancer to 26°22′30″ Cancer, is an old I Ching teaching.
falseWhat the record shows: The wheel is Ra Uru Hu's, fixed between 1987 and 1989 by turning Shao Yong's 11th-century circle of the hexagrams so that hexagram 41 begins at 2° Aquarius. No Chinese source we know ties the hexagrams to degrees of the zodiac.
