Yi Jing · Chinese tarot
Great Accumulation
Hexagram 26 of the Yi Jing · 大畜 Dà Chù
The figure
The Mountain above Heaven: the immovable restraining a great force, energy held beneath the halt. The image of great accumulation.
What this figure illuminates
Great Accumulation lights up the strength kept in reserve, nourished by restraint before it is spent. Holding back is not blockage: it is concentration.
For a decision, the figure invites you to defer in order to strike better: “what I am holding back right now — is it charging for a right use, or stagnating for lack of being used?”.
A question to keep
Is what you're holding back charging to serve, or stagnating?
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