The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 14

What does I Ching hexagram 14, Great Holding, mean?

The judgment

大有：元亨。Great holding: great success.Zhou Yi 周易, 大有, judgment. Source

The image

火在天上，大有；君子以遏惡揚善，順天休命。Fire above the sky. The noble person checks what is bad, promotes what is good and follows heaven's fine decree.Zhou Yi 周易, 大有, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初九：无交害，匪咎，艱則无咎。
2. Second line九二：大轝以載，有攸往，无咎。
3. Third line九三：公用亨于天子，小人弗克。
4. Fourth line九四：匪其尫，无咎。
5. Fifth line六五：厥孚交如，威如；吉。
6. Top line上九：自天佑之，吉无不利。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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