Hexagram 42 · line 2
Increase
益Yì
Someone adds ten pairs of tortoise shells; the gift cannot be refused. Lasting constancy is favorable. The king makes an offering to the High Deity. Favorable.
Line statement
六二
或益之十朋之龜，弗克違，永貞吉。王用享于帝，吉。
Someone adds ten pairs of tortoise shells; the gift cannot be refused. Lasting constancy is favorable. The king makes an offering to the High Deity. Favorable.
At Line 2, the valuable gift repeats the image in Hexagram 41 Line 5. Zhu Xi gives the two passages the same gift interpretation; here lasting constancy and the king’s offering are added. Changing Line 2 makes Lake below Wind, Hexagram 61.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes