The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 27

What does I Ching hexagram 27, Feeding, mean?

The judgment

頤：貞吉。觀頤，自求口實。Feeding: holding firm brings good fortune. Watch how things are fed, and seek what fills your own mouth.Zhou Yi 周易, 頤, judgment. Source

The image

山下有雷，頤；君子以慎言語，節飲食。Thunder under a mountain. The noble person is careful in speech and moderate in food and drink.Zhou Yi 周易, 頤, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初九：舍爾靈龜，觀我朵頤，凶。
2. Second line六二：顛頤，拂經，于丘頤，征凶。
3. Third line六三：拂頤，貞凶，十年勿用，无攸利。
4. Fourth line六四：顛頤吉，虎視眈眈，其欲逐逐，无咎。
5. Fifth line六五：拂經，居貞吉，不可涉大川。
6. Top line上九：由頤，厲吉，利涉大川。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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