Da You · Great Possession

The meaning

What the name means Da You is having a great deal.

The picture Fire in the sky, the sun hanging high, lighting everything with nothing hidden.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about what to do once you have a lot. The hard part is not to show off or indulge, and to put what you have to good use. The fuller it is, the steadier you must hold it.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

You already hold a lot. The hard part is not to show off or indulge, and to put what you have to good use.

The upper trigram is Fire and the lower is Heaven: Fire above, Heaven below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

元亨。

The image

火在天上，大有；君子以遏惡揚善，順天休命。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初九無交害，匪咎，艱則無咎。
2. 九二大車以載，有攸往，無咎。
3. 九三公用亨於天子，小人弗克。
4. 九四匪其彭，無咎。
5. 六五厥孚交如，威如，吉。
6. 上九自天祐之，吉無不利。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".