I / Increase

above:Sun The Gentle, Wind
below:Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder

Yi indicates that (in the state which it denotes) there will be advantage in every movement which shall be undertaken; that it will be advantageous (even) to cross the great stream.

Overall Meaning

Increase, the symbol of addition

Yi has the opposite meaning to Sun, and is the symbol of addition or increasing. What King Wan had in his mind, in connection with the hexagram, was a ruler or government operating so as to dispense benefits to, and increase the resources of all the people. Two indications are evident in the lines: - the strong line in the ruler's seat, or the fifth line, and the weak line in the correlative place of 2. Whether there be other indications in the figure or its component trigrams will be considered in dealing with the Appendices. The writer might well say, on general grounds, of the ruler whom he had in mind, that he would be successful in his enterprises and overcome the greatest difficulties.