Hexagram 14 · line 3
Possession in Great Measure
大有Dà Yǒu
A duke makes an offering to the Son of Heaven. A small person cannot do this.
Line statement
九三
公用亨于天子，小人弗克。
A duke makes an offering to the Son of Heaven. A small person cannot do this.
At Line 3, the upper edge of inner heaven, a duke's offering carries possession into a royal relation. Making the line yielding turns the lower trigram into lake and gives Hexagram 38.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
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