27
Hexagram 27, Yi — “Nourishment.” It is about what you feed yourself and others with: food, words, people, impressions.
The image of the hexagram
Below is the trigram Zhen (thunder), above is Gen (mountain). Thunder beneath the mountain: an open mouth — two firm lines at the edges and emptiness between them.
General meaning
The answer depends on the quality of the source. Yi says: what matters is not quantity but what exactly you nourish yourself with and whom you nourish. The classical text distinguishes between nourishment through your own labor and nourishment at someone else's expense, and approves of the first. The hexagram often comes up in questions about dependence — financial, emotional, practical.
In love and at work
In relationships — the question of who supports whom and whether that support is draining; for a couple, a reason to rethink the balance. At work — the source of income, the quality of your surroundings, the flow of information. To a request to be supported, the answer is no.
What to do
Check where the things you live on come from. One source is worth replacing within the next week.