Hexagram 42: Increase Changing to Hexagram 19: Approach

I Ching casting meaning · Yi → Lin

Increase is meeting an open door — Approach, where the growth you've achieved is actively wanted by the world. People are leaning in, opportunities are forming around your expanded self, and the increase that felt like your own effort is finding public welcome. Walk through. Make the ask from your bigger platform, take the meeting your new size earned, step toward the opportunity instead of waiting to be courted. One caveat: this window is seasonal and will close. Convert the welcome into something durable while it's warm. Increase that walks through open doors builds institutions. Increase that hesitates, unsure it deserves the bigger room, watches the door close and calls it fate.

A casting that moves from Increase into Approach means the situation you asked about is not static — it begins as one pattern and resolves into another. The first hexagram describes where you stand; the second describes where events are carrying you.

Highlighted in red: lines 2, 5 and 6 are moving — counted from the bottom. A moving line is where the change is actually happening: it flips from yang to yin or back, and that flip is what turns Increase into Approach.

The situation: Hexagram 42, Increase

True increase. Wind and thunder multiply each other.

Wind and thunder feeding each other — energy that multiplies instead of canceling out. This is one of the great draws: genuine increase, the kind where resources, opportunities, and momentum all rise together. The classic instruction has a spine to it, though: increase flows to people who use it well. See good, copy it fast. See your own faults, cut them faster. This is also the season to do something significant with the surplus — invest in people, take the meaningful risk, fund the thing that matters. Increase hoarded curdles; increase circulated compounds. You're being given more because the universe expects you to move it.

Structurally, Increase is Thunder below Wind — the inner state meeting the outer condition. That pairing is the lens for everything above.

Where it's heading: Hexagram 19, Approach

Good things approach. Rise meets welcome — seize the opening.

The changed hexagram is the trajectory, not a verdict. As the moving lines settle, the energy of Increase gives way to Approach (Lin) — Lake below Earth. The advice that belongs to this outcome: Approach boldly and generously now — this window will not stay open.