易I CHING · THE BOOK OF CHANGES

Hexagram 27 of 64 · King Wen sequence

Nourishment

颐 · yí

Above
Mountain
Below
Thunder

Mountain above thunder: the open mouth — what you feed, who feeds, and the discipline of the diet.

An open mouth between two firm jaws: Nourishment is the hexagram of diet in the widest sense — what you take in, what you put out, and the plain truth that both are chosen. The mouth is watched, the text says, not for what it says, but for what it seeks.

The counsel is a full audit: your inputs (news, food, company, inputs of every kind) and your outputs (what you produce, promise, pour into others). Nourish the worthy, starve the junk, and stop outsourcing the choices to appetite.

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