Da Xu · Great Accumulating

The meaning

What the name means Da Chu is a great store: of virtue, of learning, of strength.

The picture Heaven within a mountain: something so large kept inside, thickly stored.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about building up. There is great strength, but you do not use it yet; learn from the old and from experience and grow thick enough. The more you have stored, the steadier you are when you use it.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Store up your skill and your character and let them grow slowly. Good for study and gathering, not for chasing what is in front of you.

The upper trigram is Mountain and the lower is Heaven: Mountain 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

利貞，不家食吉，利涉大川。

The image

天在山中，大畜；君子以多識前言往行，以畜其德。

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. 初九有厲，利已。
2. 九二輿說輹。
3. 九三良馬逐，利艱貞。曰閒輿衛，利有攸往。
4. 六四童牛之牿，元吉。
5. 六五豶豕之牙，吉。
6. 上九何天之衢，亨。

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