Hexagram 26

DÀ CHÙ

Raising big cattle

Big accumulation
Harvest: determination
Not eating at home, auspicious
Harvest: to wade across the great river

The great image says:
Heaven in the center of the mountains: great accumulation. The noble one knows many former words and deeds and proceedings, in order to accumulate his virtue 


Mountain
Heaven

day 24 of a yang moon

    Tame and feed the big animals, take good care of the big harvest and store it in a safe place. Your life needs the big values, the harvests of man that survive the eras.
   Love has to be universal love. If it does not rely on eternal values, one cannot even call it love. But even the small things one does every day need the eternal deeds of the gods as example.
   Always, everywhere, one encounters signs of the big animals, even if one sees only a footprint, or hears a rumor. Gather the signs, store them, and save them in your soul. And tame the big bulls for plowing your fields and for riding on them in everyday life.

 

DÀ: big, see hex.14.  CHÙ: according to W-Hy bolas, an ancient throwing weapon (2), with the symbol for hunting (3), Li Leyi p.389 says: silk (2) and field (3): the harvest of silk and crops. GSR366: (2) means dark-colored, black. Later use: mystic, mysterious. 
CHU: animal, livestock. Pronounced as xù: rear or raise (livestock or children), nourish, support, cherish. Da chu: big cattle.
Xù is exchangeable with the same character with 'plants' added: collect, store, save up, hoard, reserve, accumulate, restrain, rear, breed. 

 
9 at 3: Fine horses for pursuit. Harvest: a hardship determination. Daily making fences, making carts, patrolling. Harvest: proceeding probing.
If you acquire something beautiful or precious, you also acquire the worries, duties and care that go with it. Accept them as being part of it, do not see them as negative but as essential parts of your life. A careless life without possessions can be alluring, but a life with care and possessions, and the ability to cope with them, is complete.
(Changes to hex.41)

Above 9: He carries Heaven’s highway. Expansion.
Usually insight and wisdom do not come to the neat and decent people, but to those who are very much alive – and often not at all neat and decent. They are the ones who defy things, first of all the forms that sneak into their own life. Forms are like walls and doors and fences, shutting out the universal.
Sages do not walk down the garden path, they will not settle for less than the Milky Way, the road of the gods. Gods never were decent.
(Changes to hex.11)

 
9 at 2: The carriage loses the axle-strap.
Even mishap can be a valuable part of your life. Except of course if you only see it as a cause for irritation or anger. Accept it as part of reality, or as a challenge which can make life more interesting, or as an unexpected moment of rest. As a cause for fun, for play or a break out of a rut. 
(Changes to hex.22)

6 at 5: A gelded pig’s tusks. Auspicious.
The ‘big’ things you do in your life decide about it’s value. Not being nice, but being true. Not human love but superhuman devotion. Not the fat fertile pigs one raises for eating but the symbol-pigs one offers to the gods. Your time will be of all Time if you use your teeth for higher goals than eating or fighting.
(Changes to hex.9)

 
Initial 9 : There is a snake. Harvest: to stop.
If there is a sign, an omen, then stop what you are doing, stop your human activities. Listen well if you hear any divine voice, ask for signs, meditate, whatever can make things go well again. Normal intellect will not tell you what is going on, you need to probe deeper.
 (Changes to hex.18)

6 at 4: Young bull's horn-board. Eminent auspiciousness.
 When a young bull learns the effect of his horns, he will also learn to use his aggressiveness. It will become part of his mental makeup. If he never learns to, he will have the same strength, but not the aggressive mind.
Every time one uses the negative aspect of an asset, it will become part of one’s mind. Do not think you can get back to 'normal' after that, you will be slightly changed, and the road back is near to impossible.
(Changes to hex.14)

 
The Sabian Symbols for the hexagram-lines
9 at 3 corresponds to b 24: An untidy unkempt man
 Maybe other things on his mind		 Above 9 corresponds to h 24: A man turning his back on his passions and teaching from his experience
9 at 2 corresponds to ` 24: Children skating on ice 6 at 5 corresponds to f 24: A bluebird standing at the door of the house
Initial 9 corresponds to ^ 24: An open window and a net curtain blowing into a cornucopia

6 at 4 corresponds to d 24: A third wing on the left side of a butterfly
 The soul can fly if he believes in it

 
For the meaning of  Eminent - expansion. Harvest - determination click HERE
 The noble one accumulates or: increases, nurtures. The ideogram of virtue or morality, DE, = go + straight.
Line 1. The snake means 'danger', but this character is a picture of a snake. 'Harvest: to stop' or 'The harvest is finished'. 
Line 3. Hardship: a picture of a man with back-bound hands. 'Daily' can also be sun or to say. 'Young cattle's stable' or: head-boards of a young bulls or cattle.
Line 5. In ancient times pigs were brought up with beautiful tusks. The upper ones were removed, so the lower ones grew in a circle, sometimes even several circles. Poor pig, it was agony, the tusks grew often back into its face, and eating was very difficult, so it was meagre and skinny. The tusks were symbols of the moon crescent. The number of these pigs a man could offer in the course of his life decided about his welcome and status in the afterworld. 

More about hexagram 25 and 26 here