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大有卦

Hexagram 14 · Possession in Great Measure (Da You) (火天大有)

Judgment(Original text)

元亨。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram
离(Fire) · Fire
Lower trigram
乾(Heaven) · Metal
Mutual hexagram
夬 · 泽天夬
Reversed (zong)
同人 · 天火同人
Opposite (cuo)
比 · 水地比

How to read changing lines

When a cast produces moving lines (three of a kind with coins, or a moving line in Mei Hua time casting), classical rules set the priority. Following Zhu Xi's Yixue Qimeng:

  • One line movesRead the moving line's text of this hexagram as primary
  • Two lines moveRead both moving lines' texts, the upper one takes precedence
  • Three lines moveCombine the Judgments of this hexagram and the changed one (ben as zhen, changed as hui)
  • Four lines moveRead the two unmoved lines' texts of the changed hexagram, the lower takes precedence
  • Five lines moveRead the single unmoved line's text of the changed hexagram
  • Six lines moveQian and Kun use their special 'Yong' texts; other hexagrams read the changed hexagram's Judgment

The Line texts are listed in full below.

Lines(Original text)

  1. Line 1初九:无交害,匪咎,艰则无咎。
  2. Line 2九二:大车以载,有攸往,无咎。
  3. Line 3九三:公用亨于天子,小人弗克。
  4. Line 4九四:匪其彭,无咎。
  5. Line 5六五:厥孚交如,威如,吉。
  6. Line 6上九:自天佑之,吉无不利。

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