Hexagram 14 for love
Hexagram 14 Great Holdings in love and relationships
Da You is fire above heaven, the sun at the zenith lighting everything: one gentle line at five with five strong lines all turned toward her. For a relationship it pictures abundance — a partner who holds the regard of everyone, a bond with more than enough warmth and means — and it asks how such plenty is handled. The ruler's text gives the answer in two words, sincerity and dignity: trust that runs both ways, and enough self-respect that the other does not grow careless.
The lines are the strong partner's ways of holding plenty. One has not yet been tested by it; two carries the weight gladly; three gives what it has upward rather than hoarding; four could outshine the other and chooses not to; six, at the top, yields to the one it loves and is called blessed by heaven. A changing line in the lower trigram asks what you are doing with what you have; in the upper trigram it asks about restraint and dignity, the two things that keep abundance from spoiling.
The hexagram in brief
Fire above heaven: the sun lighting everything. Great holdings and supreme success — one yielding line at the centre holds the respect of all the strong ones.
Great possession asks for generosity and clear judgement: curb the bad, promote the good, and follow what is right.
The judgment
大有：元亨。Tâ Yû indicates that, (under the circumstances which it implies), there will be great progress and success.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 大有 Great Holdings has its own page:
- 初九Nine at the beginningno harmful contact · remember the difficulty · beginning of plenty
- 九二Nine in the second placegreat wagon · bearing the load · accumulated strength
- 九三Nine in the third placeoffering to the king · noble service · small man cannot
- 九四Nine in the fourth placenot swelling · restraint near the ruler · clear discernment
- 六五Six in the fifth placesincerity exchanged · dignity · ruler of the hexagram
- 上九Nine at the tophelp from heaven · nothing not favourable · yielding above the ruler
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Questions
- Is hexagram 14, Great Holdings, a good sign for love?
- Da You is fire above heaven, the sun at the zenith lighting everything: one gentle line at five with five strong lines all turned toward her. For a relationship it pictures abundance — a partner who holds the regard of everyone, a bond with more than enough warmth and means — and it asks how such plenty is handled. The ruler's text gives the answer in two words, sincerity and dignity: trust that runs both ways, and enough self-respect that the other does not grow careless.
- What does Hexagram 14, 大有 Great Holdings, mean?
- Fire above heaven: the sun lighting everything. Great holdings and supreme success — one yielding line at the centre holds the respect of all the strong ones.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).