Wind and thunder amplify each other: what lately cost everything now comes with help, and great crossings long deferred are open. Act on the season — start the venture, make the investment, cross the great water (the Judgment). Line 1 hands you a commission: help received obliges large undertakings, and there is even room for error now — mistakes made in sincere effort self-correct in a time of increase. Practise the image's algorithm: see a good money habit in someone, imitate it; find a fault in your own, root it out. But keep the heart steady amid the abundance (the spirit of I): maintain the discipline as though the lean season never ended — the tailwind rewards exactly that steadiness.
Increase in Money
Money and finances
Money's season of increase — build boldly, keep it flowing.
Use this interpretation for finances, resources, spending, security, and material stewardship.
Hexagram 42 in money means increase: a season of financial blessing in full flow, where growth comes with a tailwind — income compounding, opportunities arriving. The Judgment is urgent because such times don't last: use the increase while it flows, and spend it on what deserves it. The same wind fills careless sails too.
Even if you feel pressed, this hexagram says the current has turned toward you — your earning capacity is rising, and it favours undertaking something rather than only defending. Move on it. Enrichment may even come through the season's setbacks (line 3): the deal that fell through, the loss that redirects — met with sincerity and a centred head, adversity now carries instruction and joins the increase. The one law of the season is circulation: increase shared keeps flowing, increase hoarded stops. Pass some downward — toward a cause, toward people you can lift — as fast as it arrives from above. Money kept moving through open hands behaves differently from money clenched.
Increase spoils through the way it's held. Carelessness: assuming the good weather is permanent, letting discipline dissolve into it. Appetite: growth converted to greed, the blessing spent on the ego's expansion. And withholding: the increased who pass nothing on — forgetting that the whole season began with giving downward and ends the moment giving stops. Line 6 is the I Ching's starkest warning, aimed here: hoard the increase and the flow reverses — isolation first, then a blow from an unexpected quarter.
The six lines in money
Great deeds are favoured
The tailwind is real: undertake the big financial step now. Sincere effort at scale succeeds — and even its errors correct themselves in this season.
The increase none can oppose
Love sound money conduct for its own sake, not just for relief, and blessing gathers that nothing can block. What was lost is restored by the same law.
Enriched through misfortune
Even the season's losses feed you — the failed deal that teaches, the setback that redirects. Stay sincere and centred, and adversity joins the increase.
The trusted intermediary
You're the one moving money between parties — trustee, treasurer, broker. Serve the transmission impartially, never bending it toward yourself, and you'll be followed.
Kindness that does not ask
Generosity so natural it never checks for a return or recognition — and is therefore recognised. The apex of a prosperous season.
Increase withheld
Taking without passing anything on: the heart unsteadied by acquisition. The flow reverses — resume the giving before the season closes on the wrong side.
What large financial step belongs in this favourable season, before it turns?
Whose good money habit could I simply imitate this month?
Is the increase flowing through me — or pooling and going stale?
Switch the lens
Hexagram 42, Increase, signals growth, support, and expansion that must be handled with generosity, humility, and right use.
Love's season of increase — build boldly and give generously.
A season of increase — build boldly and pass the gains downward.
A tailwind season — build boldly, and pass the gains downward.
The household's season of increase — build boldly and give downward.
The wind is with you — imitate good, root out faults, build.
Learning flies with a tailwind now — attempt the hard thing.
A fertile season with a tailwind — build boldly, give freely.
Act now — the wind is with you; cross the great water.
A season of blessing — use it, and pass it downward.
A season of growing circles — build boldly, give generously.
A change with a tailwind — build boldly, and pass it on.
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