I / Increase
above:Sun The Gentle, Wind
below:Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder
The second [six], divided, shows parties adding to the stores of its subject ten pairs of tortoise shells whose oracles cannot be opposed. Let him persevere in being firm and correct, and there will be good fortune. Let the king, (having the virtues thus distinguished), employ them in presenting his offerings to God and there will be good fortune.
With paragraph 2 compare paragraph 5 of the preceding hexagram. Line 2 is weak, but in the center, and is the correlate of 5. Friends give its subject the valuable gifts mentioned; 'that is', says Kwo Yung (Sung dynasty), 'men benefit him; the oracles of the divination are in his favor, - spirits, that is, benefit him; and finally, when the king sacrifices to God, He accepts. Heaven confers benefit from above'.