Hexagram 28, Dà Guò (Great Exceeding): Line 3
大过卦九三 · 泽风大过 · 中文版
九三：栋桡，凶。
The line (Legge)
The third NINE, undivided, shows a beam that is weak. There will be evil.
Small Image commentary
'The evil connected with the beam that is weak' arises from this, that no help can be given (to the condition thus represented).
象曰：栋桡之凶，不可以有辅也。
In plain words
The ridgepole sags: misfortune. The third line is strong but not central, too rigid to accept help, and bends under the load. The Small Image says in this way it cannot be helped.
Applying it to your situation
If you are carrying too heavy a load alone, this line suggests forcing it will only bend you. Whose help have you turned down?
Position
A solid (yang) line in the third place, which is a yang (odd) place, so it is in its proper place. Its partner is line 6; 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 47 Kùn (Exhaustion). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·大过之困.
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.
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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.