I Ching · Hexagram 26
Dà Xù: The Taming Power of the Great
Heaven is held within the mountain: great energy gathered and kept in. Da Xu is building strength, knowledge or resources through discipline before using them.
- Keywords
- Restraint, accumulation, discipline, potential
- Upper trigram
- Mountain (Gen)
- Lower trigram
- Heaven (Qian)
- Advice
- Keep learning and saving your strength; when the time comes, step out boldly.
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.