Hexagram 26
Great Taming
Mountain over Heaven
The judgment
利贞，不家食吉，利涉大川Heaven is held inside the mountain: large force stored where it cannot spend itself. What is gathered here grows by waiting, and spends wrong if it leaves too soon.
The image
The mountain keeps the sky inside and shows a plain rock face. Capacity is built in the season when nothing shows.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初九Line 1
有厉利已
Danger meets the very first step; holding still costs the least, because there is no other way forward here.
Marked in the textdanger
- 九二Line 2
舆说輹
A wheel's spokes have come loose; unable to move, repair the cart first instead of forcing it.
- 九三Line 3
良马逐，利艰贞，吉。日闲舆卫，利有攸往
The good horses are let loose and run, yet the road ahead stays narrow; the going is hard, and holding the course matters. Each day, between runs, check the carriage and the guards, and once all is in order the journey can be made.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 六四Line 4
童牛之告，元吉
A calf has not grown horns yet; fit the guard early, so trouble is blocked before it takes shape.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 六五Line 5
豮豕之牙，吉
The boar's tusks are held; the strength remains, only it no longer charges wildly.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 上九Line 6
何天之衢，亨
At the road's end the sky opens overhead, and a broad crossing lies ahead.
Marked in the textsuccess
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram