Hexagram 26 of 64

☶☰ Great Taming

Power held in reserve and built up.

Upper trigram

Mountain · Gen

Stillness and limit.

FamilyYoungest son
ElementEarth

Lower trigram

Heaven · Qian

Creative force.

FamilyFather
ElementMetal

The image

Mountain above, Heaven below.

Mountain over Heaven: stillness and limit meeting creative force.

That combination is the whole meaning of hexagram 26. Nothing about it is arbitrary — change either trigram and you get a different hexagram with a different reading, which is why the 64 form a system rather than a list.