Hexagram 26
Great accumulation, restraint, accumulation and accumulation
The Da Xu hexagram teaches us that real success comes from deep inner accumulation. Be able to endure loneliness, know how to restrain your desires, and focus on cultivating your virtues and abilities. When the time comes, the whole world will make way for you.
Trigram Structure
䷙, Gen above, Qian below
Palace：乾
Key Themes
Great accumulation, restraint, accumulation and accumulation
The Da Xu hexagram teaches us that real success comes from deep inner accumulation. Be able to endure loneliness, know how to restrain your desires, and focus on cultivating your virtues and abilities. When the time comes, the whole world will make way for you.
Da Xu: Li Zhen. If you don't eat at home, it's auspicious. Benefit from the great rivers.
Rich mineral veins hidden in mountains, huge reservoirs.
National treasury, safe, granary, database.
The Da Xu hexagram teaches us that real success comes from deep inner accumulation. Be able to endure loneliness, know how to restrain your desires, and focus on cultivating your virtues and abilities. When the time comes, the whole world will make way for you.
Being fierce is beneficial to oneself.
Guidance
There is danger; you should stop advancing and accumulate strength.
Modern Insight
In the early stage of accumulation, you are full of motivation to advance. But this line reminds you that knowing how to brake is the first lesson of accumulation. When you sense risk ahead or the timing is wrong, decisively stopping is the best strategy to protect yourself and preserve strength.
Public opinion spreads.
Guidance
The axle falls off, unable to advance; this indicates the timing is not yet right.
Modern Insight
Your advance is limited by internal structure and forced to stop. This is not a bad thing. This is your self-restraint mechanism at work, preventing your reckless advance. This is a passive but very beneficial state of accumulation.
A good horse chases away, and the advantage is difficult and chaste, and it is called leisurely and guarding.
Guidance
A good horse in pursuit; beneficial for defense; should practice daily.
Modern Insight
Accumulation is not idleness. While waiting for the opportunity, you must diligently practice internal skills and always be prepared. Daily improvement of your professional skills, repeated practice of your plans, maintaining the best state of readiness—only then can you seize the opportunity when it comes.
The suppression of young cows is auspicious.
Guidance
Adding wooden bars to a calf's horns to prevent injury; great fortune.
Modern Insight
This is the highest wisdom of preventing problems before they arise. When power (or problems) is still in the bud stage, guiding and restraining it is most effective and easiest. Whether educating children or managing potential risks in a team, early intervention can avoid major troubles later.
The fang of a pig is auspicious.
Guidance
A castrated boar, indicating removal of evil roots; auspicious.
Modern Insight
This emphasizes eliminating aggressiveness at its root. You are not confronting a powerful force, but through wisdom, dissolving the root cause of its harm. This is more sophisticated than suppression, able to transform originally dangerous power into useful resources.
Hetian's thoroughfare is prosperous.
Guidance
Unobstructed passage, like walking on a broad road; prosperous.
Modern Insight
This is the final result of Da Xu. After the deep accumulation and effective restraint of the previous five stages, your virtue, wisdom, and ability have all reached perfection. At this time, the way of heaven opens the path for you; the road ahead will be extremely broad, and everything you do will be prosperous and unobstructed. This is the inevitable reward after deep accumulation and sudden release.
