I Chinghexagram 14, depicted ||||:| is named 大有 (da4 you3), Great Possessing. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Possession in Great Measure; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), The Great Possession. Alternative meaning: I Ching (monk) The I Ching (Traditional Chinese: 易經, pinyin y jīng; Cantonese IPA: jɪk6gɪŋ1; Cantonese Jyutping: jik6ging1; alternative romanizations include I Jing, Yi Ching, Yi King) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. ...
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Inner (lower) trigram is ☰ (||| 乾 qian2) Force = (天) heaven
Outer (upper) trigram is ☲ (|:| 離 li2) Radiance = (火) fire
The skeletal form of hexagram 14 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 32, and so a generic focus on commitment (leading from the centre).
The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With perseverence (heaven in lower) comes direction-setting, an ideology (fire in upper)"
As such hexagram 08 is focused on issues of devotion used to establish control versus hexagram14 with a focus on perseverence used to establish a sense of direction and so of development.
In this sequence hexagram14, the focus upon being the centre of guidence, source of direction-setting, 'opposes' hexagram 05 where we wait.
The generic properties of hexagram14 reflect the mixing of the generic properties of hexagram34 with the generic properties of hexagram32.