Hexagram 49: Revolution Changing to Hexagram 42: Increase

I Ching casting meaning · Ge → Yi

Revolution is entering genuine expansion — Increase, where the transformation grows beyond its original scope. Wind and thunder feeding each other: the new order is not just surviving but flourishing, producing resources and opportunities that the old order couldn't have imagined. This is the revolution's reward phase — the moment the promised better world starts actually delivering. Manage the growth: see what's working and amplify it, see what's failing and fix it, and protect the revolutionary principles while the new order scales. Increase after a successful revolution is the proof that the fight was worth it. The flourishing that follows genuine transformation is the revolution's best argument. Let the abundance be visible. Let it be shared.

A casting that moves from Revolution into Increase 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 3, 4 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 Revolution into Increase.

The situation: Hexagram 49, Revolution

The old form burns off. Change, timed right, earns belief.

Fire and water in the same vessel — one of them is about to transform the other, and nothing stays in its old form. This is the molting hexagram: radical change, regime change, the rebrand, the moment the old skin comes off. Two things decide whether it works. Timing: move too early and nobody follows, too late and you're defending a corpse — change when the need is obvious to everyone. And justification: the new order has to be visibly better, or you're just the next thing getting overthrown. When the moment's right, commit totally. Half-revolutions are just vandalism. Molt completely, and the new skin holds.

Structurally, Revolution is Fire below Lake — the inner state meeting the outer condition. That pairing is the lens for everything above.

Where it's heading: Hexagram 42, Increase

True increase. Wind and thunder multiply each other.

The changed hexagram is the trajectory, not a verdict. As the moving lines settle, the energy of Revolution gives way to Increase (Yi) — Thunder below Wind. The advice that belongs to this outcome: Use the surplus boldly: invest in what matters and fix one fault fast.