Hexagram 28, Dà Guò (Great Exceeding): Line 1
大过卦初六 · 泽风大过 · 中文版
初六：藉用白茅，无咎。
The line (Legge)
The first SIX, divided, shows one placing mats of the white m?o grass under things set on the ground. There will be no error.
Small Image commentary
'He places mats of the white m?o grass under things set on the ground:' - he feels his weakness and his being in the lowest place, (and uses extraordinary care).
象曰：藉用白茅，柔在下也。
In plain words
Spreading white rushes underneath: no fault. The first line is weak and low and acts with the greatest care and reverence. The Great Commentary says: it would be enough to set the offering on the ground, but spreading rushes beneath it, what fault could there be? This is the height of care. The Small Image says the yielding one is below.
Applying it to your situation
If you face something of great weight, this line suggests one more measure of care and one more layer of preparation. Where could you lay down one more layer of "white rushes"?
Position
A broken (yin) line in the first place, which is a yang (odd) place, so it is not in its proper place. Its partner is line 4; one is yin and the other yang, so they respond to each other.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Dà Guò changes into Hexagram 43 Guài (Breakthrough). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·大过之夬.
The hexagram
Hexagram 28 Dà Guò (Great Exceeding). The Judgment: Da Guo suggests to us a beam that is weak. There will be advantage in moving (under its conditions) in any direction whatever; there will be success.
Next: Line 2
English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.