Interpretation: The moral of the story here is very much about defining what something you “have” is. It’s meaning isn’t always material, financial, or about possessions, but can also be more broadly about our own personal values, that is, the way in which we value things or people and thus why we value them in this way.
“Value” is born from “quality,” and we know that some values are always subordinate to others; generosity transcends greed, renunciation transcends attachment, altruism transcends egotism, and giving transcends usury, and whoever possesses and applies this great knowledge, that is, whoever behaves in a way that favors positive qualities, will also possess the most wealth.
The laws of evolution involve change and thus also entail working on forces that allow for detachment and letting go, with the goal of understanding the full meaning of “emptiness” (vacuity in the Buddhist sense of the term, sunyata).
Astrological points to pay attention to: The axis “of possessions and values,” that is, the axis of the 2nd and 8th houses (Taurus/Scorpio), is especially emphasized here.
This axis is where our system for valuing things comes into play: in the duality of Venus and Pluto. Venusian energies represent “magnetism,” which is the basis for our attachments, while Plutonian forces, on the other hand, lead to detachment, including through fatality and sometimes destruction.
This axis has several possible modes of expression; primarily, “having” things is about possessing material things to reassure yourself, but of course various types of transpersonal meditations are possible (particularly with Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter) and can allow you to move on to a “nobler” stage where this “having” is also about more subtle qualities, knowledge, behaviors, and feelings.
Remarks: This hexagram puts us face to face with our value judgments and asks us what we want to “accumulate:” materialism or spirituality.