I Ching · Hexagram 14
Dà Yǒu: Possession in Great Measure
The sun stands high in the sky and lights everything below. Da You is a time of plenty, and it asks what you do with it: humility and generosity keep abundance healthy.
- Keywords
- Abundance, success, generosity, responsibility
- Upper trigram
- Fire (Li)
- Lower trigram
- Heaven (Qian)
- Advice
- Share what you have and stay modest; success is held, not owned.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.