Da You: Holding the resources, everyone waiting on you
This page describes a situation. It gives no verdict. The number, trigrams and inner hexagram are all checkable.
Answer first (self-contained)Da You (hexagram 14, 离 over 乾) describes this kind of situation: Holding the resources, everyone waiting on you. It does not predict anything and it does not decide for you. It does one thing: it makes visible which dynamic you are currently inside, so you can recognise whether you are in it. There are three ways to check. First, the situation itself: Holding the resources, everyone waiting on you. Second, three checkable facts below (the number, the two trigrams, and the inner hexagram). Third, the three steps at the bottom, and whether you have done any of them.
What situation this is
You are holding something others need, and because of that, every decision is waiting on you. Should this partnership happen. Should this be settled. Should this risk be taken. And because it waits on you, every hesitation you have makes everyone else more passive.
Checkable facts
- Number
- Hexagram 14 of 64
- Name
- 大有 (Da You)
- Trigrams
- 离 over 乾
- Inner hexagram
- The internal force is 夬
- Reversed
- Reversed hexagram: Bi
- Inverted
- Inverted hexagram: Tong Ren
- Palace
- 乾 (归魂)
- Book
- 上经
- Structure
- 离上乾下
- Seasonal phase
- -
- Law attached
- 容量 (secondary: 权衡)
- Position
- Previous Tong Ren, next Qian
How it differs from the neighbours
Previous hexagram Tong Ren (hexagram 13) describes: Surrounded by people, unheard.
Next hexagram Qian (hexagram 15) describes: Quietly capable, quietly invisible.
The inner hexagram (internal force) The inner hexagram is 夬. The situation on this page is what is visible; The inner force is Guo: the thing that has to be decided is already pressing from inside. is what has been going on inside it. They are different layers, and reading one as the other is the usual mistake.
Three steps you can take today
- Capacity is what has not been filled yet. What is already full cannot take anything new.
- Write down what information you are waiting for and when it will arrive. Then write what you do if it never does.
- Am I waiting for more information, or for an approval that will never carry the risk?
Do just this today Today, say one decision out loud, in front of the people waiting for it.
Does this sound like you
- Everyone is waiting for me to say one word.
- When I hesitate, the whole team stops there.
- The resource is in my hands, and nothing moves.
- I am afraid to commit in case I cannot undo it.
How this path works, and where it breaksThe way forward is saying out loud that everyone is waiting. Da You is timing, and timing held back by everyone turns into a bottleneck. Wait long enough and the window closes; the cost of collective waiting lands on whoever has the least patience, and it lands there every time.
Inner hexagram: the internal forceThe inner force is Guo: the thing that has to be decided is already pressing from inside.
What this hexagram does not doThis does not rush you, and it does not call you decisive. It only asks you to be honest about what you are actually waiting for.
Most likely misuseThe easiest misuse is to turn it into a lecture about decisiveness. A careful decision is still a decision.
Sources for this page
- Original text (judgment and Tuan commentary)
- I Ching, hexagram 14
火在天上，无所不照；遏恶扬善，不可膨胀。 - Data source
- 周易深度解析与蒸馏_v3 · 卦义表
Number, trigrams, inner hexagram, reversed, inverted, palace and seasonal phase all come from the original text and can be checked. - Who wrote the situation descriptions
- Original to this project
Situation names, signals, today's step, micro-action and the core question were written for this project. They are not from the original text and are not an authoritative reading of it.
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