Increase
Judgment
— I Ching · classical
利有攸往，利涉大川。
This is a favorable moment to move forward, and to cross the great river.
Image
— Great Image
风雷，益，君子以见善则迁，有过则改。
Thunder rolls, wind rises, each strengthening the other: this is Increase. Seeing it, the wise person adopts what is good on sight and sheds their own faults without delay.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Red-letter season — subsidies, exploding demand, fresh capital. The chief must reinvest the windfall into employees and customers (sun shang yi xia) or risk severe backlash.
Psychology & Cognition
See good and follow it; see fault and shed it (jian shan ze qian, you guo ze gai). Use the favorable wind to push long-difficult projects.
Decision Guidance
With sincere benevolence (you fu hui xin), do not ask, do not announce. The selfish hoarder at the top (line 6) is universally struck.
Integrated Reading
— Structure · timing · relations
Increase places The Gentle / Wind, Wood above The Arousing / Thunder. Read the lower trigram as the emerging ground and the upper trigram as the field, pressure, or constraint it must answer. The core theme is Increase · Generosity from above · Surfing the favorable wind. Relations: the opposite hexagram shows the shadow/complement (Duration); the inverse shows the other-side view (Decrease); the nuclear hexagram shows the hidden internal mechanism (Splitting Apart).
Line Path
Line path: Initial Nine → Six in the second → Six in the third → Six in the fourth → Nine in the fifth → Nine at the top. Read from bottom to top to see how the situation emerges, develops, crosses thresholds, and resolves.
Reflection Prompt
Am I acting from the proper position of Increase, or am I being pulled by receiving increase without returning benefit? What is the smallest reversible next move that respects the timing?
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
Adam Grant's research on 'givers' as long-term top performers; the principle of pay-it-forward; Carnegie's 'Gospel of Wealth' updated; the Buddhist dāna (generosity); Charlie Munger's idea that fair dealing compounds reputational capital across decades.
· English renderings and modern readings are original editorial writing, cross-checked against public-domain and classical commentary lineages.
· Hexagram Cast does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· Modern inputs are reproducible; traditional casts can be audited line by line from the stored coin/yarrow trace.