Hexagram 14 · line 4
Possession in Great Measure
大有Dà Yǒu
Not flaunting one’s abundance. No fault.
Line statement
九四
匪其彭，无咎。
Not flaunting one’s abundance. No fault.
Firm Line 4 sits directly below the yielding ruler. Restraining the display of abundance avoids pressing that advantage against the ruler’s position. Changing the line to yielding turns upper fire to mountain and produces Hexagram 26.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes