Hexagram 26: The Taming Power of the Great Changing to Hexagram 14: Possession in Great Measure

I Ching casting meaning · Da Chu → Da You

The reserve is full, and it shows. Possession in Great Measure is what patient accumulation looks like from outside: resources, attention, opportunity — more than usual, more than most. You know better than anyone how this was built, which is exactly your protection now, because abundance attracts gravity: rivals, flatterers, your own complacency. Stay generous and stay sharp; hoarding corrodes it and arrogance burns it down. Spend the surplus on the people and work that got you here. The mountain taught you restraint with nothing visible. Plenty is the same test with higher stakes — pass it and this becomes foundation, not peak.

A casting that moves from The Taming Power of the Great into Possession in Great Measure means the situation you asked about is not static — it begins as one pattern and resolves into another. The first hexagram describes where you stand; the second describes where events are carrying you.

Highlighted in red: line 4 is moving — counted from the bottom. A moving line is where the change is actually happening: it flips from yang to yin or back, and that flip is what turns The Taming Power of the Great into Possession in Great Measure.

The situation: Hexagram 26, The Taming Power of the Great

Great power held in reserve. Store strength for the right release.

Heaven contained inside a mountain — enormous force, deliberately held. This is the accumulation hexagram: strength, skill, and resources being banked instead of spent, so that when the moment comes, the release is decisive. Your job now is twofold. First, restrain: not every impulse deserves execution, and discipline is what makes power mean anything. Second, feed the reserve daily — train, study, save, practice the craft. History and old masters are unusually good teachers right now. You're not stalled; you're loading. When this much held energy finally moves, it moves everything in front of it.

Structurally, The Taming Power of the Great is Heaven below Mountain — the inner state meeting the outer condition. That pairing is the lens for everything above.

Where it's heading: Hexagram 14, Possession in Great Measure

Abundance with responsibility. Much is yours — handle it well.

The changed hexagram is the trajectory, not a verdict. As the moving line settles, the energy of The Taming Power of the Great gives way to Possession in Great Measure (Da You) — Heaven below Fire. The advice that belongs to this outcome: Use your abundance generously and stay sharp. Plenty is a character test.