Hexagram 42: Increase Changing to Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet

I Ching casting meaning · Yi → Gou

Increase's expanded platform has attracted something new — Coming to Meet, where a charming opportunity, person, or idea has just approached your grown self and wants access. Welcome the encounter without handing over what you built. The newcomer is drawn to your increase — your resources, your platform, your momentum — and not every entity drawn to growth wishes it well. Some want to contribute; others want to extract. Enjoy the spark, vet thoroughly, and keep the keys until trust is earned. Small footholds granted casually to charming arrivals in a growth phase become large regrets faster than founders expect. Increase earned you something worth protecting. Defend it with open eyes and closed doors until the vetting is done.

A casting that moves from Increase into Coming to Meet 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 1, 2, 3 and 4 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 Coming to Meet.

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 44, Coming to Meet

A bold encounter. Small and seductive can take over.

The changed hexagram is the trajectory, not a verdict. As the moving lines settle, the energy of Increase gives way to Coming to Meet (Gou) — Wind below Heaven. The advice that belongs to this outcome: Meet the newcomer warmly, vet slowly, and keep them out of the driver's seat.