Oracle for the Week of 4.8.24
Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community and belonging, and we are all searching for home. —Erwin McManus
TA YU
Possession in Great Measure
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His character is firm and strong, ordered and clear; it finds correspondence in heaven and moves with the time; hence the words “Supreme success.”
THE JUDGMENT
POSSESSION IN GREAT MEASURE.
Supreme Success.
The two trigrams indicate the strength and clarity unite. Possession in great measure is determined in great measure is determined by fate and accords with the time. How is it possible that the weak line has power to hold the strong lines fast and to possess them? It is done by virtue of unselfish modesty. The time is favorable — a time of strength within, clarity and culture without. Power is expressing itself in a graceful and controlled way. This brings supreme success and wealth.
THE IMAGE
Fire in heaven above:
The image of POSSESSION IN GREAT MEASURE.
Thus the superior man curbs evil and furthers good,
And thereby obeys the benevolent will of heaven.
The sun in heaven above, shedding light over everything on earth, is the image of possession on a grand scale. But a possession of this sort must be administered properly. The sun brings both evil and good into the light of day. Man must combat and curb the evil, and must favor and promote the good. Only in this way does he fulfill the benevolent will of God, who desires only good and not evil.
THE LINES
Nine in the second place means:
A big wagon for loading.
One may undertake something.
No blame.
Great possession consists not only in the quantity of goods at one’s disposal, but first and foremost, in their mobility and utility, for then they can be used in undertakings, and we remain free of embarrassment and mistakes. The big wagon, which will carry a heavy load and in which one can journey far, means that there are at hand able helpers who give their support and are equal to their task. One can load great responsibility upon such persons, and this is necessary in great undertakings.
(See below for the specific line’s significance and how to interpret it.)
SIGNIFICANCE OF SPECIFIC LINES DETERMINES
ITS STATUS AND FUNCTION IN A HEXAGRAM
LINE 2
Lines one and two are of the earth’s domain.
Line 2 represents the courtier of the duke, or a domestic official, or a low ranking official
In present times, it is interpreted as the elite of civilians.
At the position for starting action: it possesses the principle of moderation. It is ready for the assigned mission, but what it can do is still limited.