Hexagram 42: Increase風雷益 · Yì

• Upper trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.
• Lower trigram　Zhèn, Thunder: arousal, beginnings and sudden change.

The Judgment

It furthers to go somewhere. It furthers to cross the great water.

利有攸往，利涉大川。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Gain and help. Today suits giving freely and learning from others' strengths; helping each other succeed brings more for everyone.

Something to do today

• Help one person today, or learn one thing from someone.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.