Nourishment · Shan Lei Yi
Nourishment — what you feed on, in body and in spirit.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 27 is the open mouth — nourishment in every sense: food, speech, company, and the ideas you swallow daily. Examine what you are feeding yourself, for you become it. Feed yourself well and watch your words, since what leaves the mouth shapes the same life the mouth sustains.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Thunder (Zhen) · Wood
- Upper trigram: Mountain (Gen) · Earth
- House: Wind (Xun) · Wood
- Text in the original Chinese: 山雷颐