The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 42

What does I Ching hexagram 42, More, mean?

The judgment

益：利有攸往。利涉大川。More: it pays to set out, and to cross the great river.Zhou Yi 周易, 益, judgment. Source

The image

風雷，益；君子以見善則遷，有過則改。Wind and thunder. On seeing good, the noble person moves toward it; on having faults, changes them.Zhou Yi 周易, 益, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初九：利用為大作，元吉，无咎。
2. Second line六二：或益之，十朋之龜弗克違，永貞吉。王用享于帝，吉。
3. Third line六三：益之用凶事，无咎。有孚中行，告公用圭。
4. Fourth line六四：中行，告公從。利用為依遷國。
5. Fifth line九五：有孚惠心，勿問元吉。有孚惠我德。
6. Top line上九：莫益之，或擊之，立心勿恆，凶。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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