大有 Great Possession
Upper trigram: Fire (fire) · Lower trigram: Heaven (the sky)
Abundance — the task now is stewardship, not acquisition.
Modern interpretation
You have, or are about to have, a great deal — attention, resources, opportunity. The task shifts from getting to managing: be generous, stay humble, and do not let abundance make you careless. What is held lightly lasts longest.
The Judgment · 卦辞
元亨。
“Tâ Yû indicates that, (under the circumstances which it implies), there will be great progress and success.” — James Legge, The Yî King (1882)
The six lines · 爻辞
Read from the bottom line upward. Each line pairs the received Chinese text with Legge's English translation.
无交害匪咎。艰则无咎。
“In the first line, undivided, there is no approach to what is injurious, and there is no error. Let there be a realisation of the difficulty (and danger of the position), and there will be no error (to the end).”
大车以载，有攸往，无咎。
“In the second line, undivided, we have a large waggon with its load. In whatever direction advance is made, there will be no error.”
公用亨于天子，小人弗克。
“The third line, undivided, shows us a feudal prince presenting his offerings to the Son of Heaven. A small man would be unequal (to such a duty).”
匪其彭，无咎。
“The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject keeping his great resources under restraint. There will be no error.”
厥孚交如威如，吉。
“The fifth line, divided, shows the sincerity of its subject reciprocated by that of all the others (represented in the hexagram). Let him display a proper majesty, and there will be good fortune.”
自天佑之，吉，无不利。
“The topmost line, undivided, shows its subject with help accorded to him from Heaven. There will be good fortune, advantage in every respect.”
About changing lines
In a real I Ching reading, hexagrams are built by casting coins or yarrow stalks six times, bottom line first. Some lines come out “old” (unstable) — an old yin or old yang flips into its opposite, producing a second hexagram that shows where the situation is heading. The changing lines are the moving parts of your answer: read their individual line statements above, and they point to the direction of change.
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