Hexagram 26 · 大畜 · dà chù
Hexagram 26. Dà Chù · The Taming Power of the Great
☶☰ Mountain over heaven: Gèn above, Qián below.
Under the conditions of Ta Khh it will be advan¬ tageous to be firm and correct. (If its subject do not seek to) enjoy his revenues in his own family (without taking service at court), there will be good fortune. It will be advantageous for him to cross the great stream.
Under the conditions of Ta Khh it will be advan¬ tageous to be firm and correct. (If its subject do not seek to) enjoy his revenues in his own family (without taking service at court), there will be good fortune. It will be advantageous for him to cross the great stream.
Heaven held within the mountain: enormous force put under discipline. Store up knowledge, experience, character — study the words and deeds of the ancients, learn from the best beyond your own circle. Power so trained is fit for the greatest undertaking.
The Image
Heaven within the mountain: enormous potential held under restraint. The holding now is not lost tempo but the charging of a battery: study, train the team, absorb the experience of the best — 'the words and deeds of the ancients' — and tame risky forces early, while they are young. What is thus stored will later bear the greatest venture.
Interpretation of hexagram 26
XXVI. The Ta Kh<j Hexagram. proper correlate, nor is the fourth the place for a strong line. Hence the paragraph must be understood as a caution.
The lines of hexagram 26
First line
The first line, undivided, shows its subject in a position of peril. It will be advantageous for him to stop his advance.
Line 5 is strong, in the central place of honour, and has its proper correlate in 2. Hence its subject must possess the quality of the hexagram in perfection. And yet he shall be sick or in distress. But he need not be anxious. Without his efforts a way of escape for him will be opened.
Second line
The second line, undivided, shows a carriage with the strap under it removed.
Line 6 is at the top of the hexagram, and comes into the field when the action has run its course. He should be still, and not initiate any fresh movement.
Third line
The third line, undivided, shows its subject urging his way with good horses. It will be ad¬ vantageous for him to realise the difficulty (of his course), and to be firm and correct, exercising him¬ self daily in his charioteering and methods of defence;
THE TA KHV HEXAGRAM.
Fourth line
The fourth line, divided, shows the young bull, (and yet) having the piece of wood over his horns. There will be great good fortune.
then there will be advantage in whatever direction he may advance.
Fifth line
The fifth line, divided, shows the teeth of a castrated hog. There will be good fortune.
XXVI. Khu has two meanings. It is the symbol of restraint, and of accumulation. What is repressed and restrained accumu¬ lates its strength and increases its volume. Both these meanings are found in the treatise on the Thwan; the exposition of the Great Symbolism has for its subject the accumulation of virtue. The different lines are occupied with the repression or restraint of move¬ ment. The first three lines receive that repression, the upper three exercise it. The accumulation to which all tends is that of virtue; and hence the name of Ta WM, ‘the Great Accumulation.’
Top line
The sixth line, undivided, shows its subject (as) in command of the firmament of heaven. There will be progress.
What the Thwan teaches, is that he who goes about to accumulate his virtue must be firm and correct, and may then, engaging in the public service, enjoy the king’s grace, and under¬ take the most difficult enterprises.
Did hexagram 26 come up in your reading? The oracle itself gives the full reading, with changing lines and the second hexagram.
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