Increase

Wind and thunder reinforcing each other: a season made for generous expansion.

Xun: wind through bamboo — Upper trigram · Xun

Zhen: a forest before thunder — Lower trigram · Zhen

Wind and thunder amplify one another — the paired image of gain in motion. Increase marks a season when expansion genuinely runs: what is above willingly supplies what is below, and everything planted takes. Its counsel is double — move on the good season promptly, crossing the great water while it favours crossing; and imitate the season’s method by improving yourself where you see better, correcting faults the moment they show. Increase belongs to the improvable.

On wealth

A genuine growth window: commit to the well-founded venture now, and reinvest gains into capability.

Cast your own hexagram?

This is one hexagram of sixty-four. Three coins, six throws — bring a question and see which lines answer you, changing lines and all.

Cast the I Ching

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