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大有
Hexagram 14 · Dà Yǒu

Great Possession

大有 · dà yǒu
Abundance held with humility shines far.
Lí · Fire
above
Qián · Heaven
below

Core Meaning

The Judgment: Great Possession: supreme success.
The Image: Fire blazes high in heaven, illuminating all. So the wise person suppresses what is evil and lifts up what is good, in accord with the will of heaven.

Fire high in heaven, illuminating everything: Dà Yǒu is great possession — abundance of resources, talent, position, or fortune, held at the moment of its fullness.

Everything in this hexagram depends on how abundance is carried. Possession curbs evil and furthers good when held with humility and offered to what is highest; it corrodes when hoarded or worn as superiority. Wealth of any kind, here, is a responsibility with a shine on it.

Great Possession in Your Question

Love & Relationships

Dà Yǒu suggests richness in the emotional realm — much to give, much received, a bond with real substance. Its counsel concerns carrying that wealth: generosity without keeping score, dignity without superiority. The fifth line's formula fits love precisely: sincerity that is accessible, yet carried with self-respect, attracts everything good.

Career & Money

Professionally, this is success in hand: resources, recognition, the big wagon ready for loading. The hexagram's questions are about stewardship — what larger purpose the possession serves, whether you can distinguish yourself from your assets, whether success is curbing your faults or feeding them. Abundance managed with humility, its final line promises, attracts help from everywhere.

Personal Growth

Inwardly, Dà Yǒu examines your relationship to what you have — gifts, achievements, blessings. Its practice is possession without identification: enjoying and deploying your wealth of self while remembering you are the holder, not the holdings. Gratitude offered upward keeps great possession from quietly becoming great burden.

The Six Lines

A line speaks only when it is a changing line in your own casting.

Line 1
No entanglement yet with what is harmful — keep it so. Remain aware of difficulty, and stay free of blame.
Line 2
A great wagon, built for loading. One may undertake something far-reaching. No blame.
Line 3
A true prince offers his abundance up to what is highest. A small-minded person cannot do this and is harmed by wealth.
Line 4
He draws a clear line between himself and his powerful neighbor's way of rivalry. No blame.
Line 5
One whose sincerity is open to all, yet carried with dignity, has good fortune.
Line 6
Blessed by heaven itself: good fortune, and nothing that does not prosper.

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