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大畜卦

Hexagram 26 · The Taming Power of the Great (Da Xu) (山天大畜)

Judgment(Original text)

利贞。不家食吉,利涉大川。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram
艮(Mountain) · Earth
Lower trigram
乾(Heaven) · Metal
Mutual hexagram
归妹 · 雷泽归妹
Reversed (zong)
无妄 · 天雷无妄
Opposite (cuo)
萃 · 泽地萃

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:有厉利已。
  2. Line 2九二:舆说輹。
  3. Line 3九三:良马逐,利艰贞。曰闲舆卫,利有攸往。
  4. Line 4六四:童牛之牿,元吉。
  5. Line 5六五:豮豕之牙,吉。
  6. Line 6上九:何天之衢,亨。

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