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益

№ 42 · form and receptivity

Increase

Hexagram Increase shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

increasetransitionmeasure

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

益：利有攸往。利涉大川。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Increase: it is beneficial to have somewhere to go. It is beneficial to cross the great river.

Frozen witness evidence records an ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH variant. The draft follows the immutable primary acquisition and leaves the graph-level issue visible for human review.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

zhouyi-42-guaci · sha256:bb8543cb083a456fdc812fd71f242031920fdf547a8b24eb0cd1aff9a629f956

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初九：利用为大作，元吉，无咎。

Initial Nine: it is beneficial to use this for a great undertaking. Great auspiciousness; no blame.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-42-line-1 · sha256:b4bbdb33cfb376d3ad56f787f45af57f8d4d6c35078c98029fda8516b21f98e7

Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：或益之，十朋之龟弗克违，永贞吉。王用享于帝，吉。

Six in the Second: someone increases him. A tortoise worth ten pairs cannot oppose it. Lasting constancy is auspicious. The king uses an offering to Di. Auspicious.

帝 is retained as Di rather than silently equated with a later theological concept.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：益之用凶事，无咎。有孚中行，告公用圭。

Six in the Third: increase him by using unfortunate affairs. No blame. There is trust; walk the middle way and report to the duke using a jade tablet.

圭 is a ritual jade tablet; “unfortunate affairs” keeps 凶事 close without treating adversity as advice.

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zhouyi-42-line-3 · sha256:91779cb7451e9691607e817cc8cedf9ca3a6cd2e13568d308d6c68f23afdceda

Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：中行，告公从。利用为依迁国。

Six in the Fourth: walking the middle way, report to the duke and he follows. It is beneficial to use this as support when moving the capital.

迁国 is a major polity-relocation formula; the source setting is preserved.

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zhouyi-42-line-4 · sha256:dd8079ff437404ad6700c0663db33de03b895cbb98c2515e6f7dd99405e636d4

Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：有孚惠心，勿问元吉。有孚惠我德。

Nine in the Fifth: there is trust in a benevolent heart. Do not ask: great auspiciousness. There is trust that benefits my virtue.

惠心 / 惠我德 are compact; the draft retains the repeated 惠 rather than smoothing it away.

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zhouyi-42-line-5 · sha256:abb02ab2838dcea811f4315430d696e99013766a4bde1a7d9e50cce450df6504

Line 6 · 爻辭

上九：莫益之，或击之，立心勿恒，凶。

Top Nine: no one increases him; someone strikes him. Setting the heart without constancy: misfortune.

立心勿恒 is syntactically terse; translation remains close and provisional.

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zhouyi-42-line-6 · sha256:2909454b50de80a75c8b23ae3916ec5d5980a24a7575d7091c3632e6eb743086

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of increase: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • • First read Increase as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Increase day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Increase asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • • Which small step fits the timing?
  • • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “Increase” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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