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of what use to her then is this as that recommended hospital visit?

Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:

27

Hexagram 27, Nourishment

Key Questions

What would nourish you?
How is your hunger motivating you?
If you accept this as nourishment, who will you become?

Oracle

'Nourishment: constancy brings good fortune.
See the jaws,
Your own quest for something real to fill your mouth.'

Literally, this hexagram is called 'Jaws': it means not only what you eat, but all the processes and structures that sustain nourishment. It includes all forms of nourishment: physical, social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual... all creating and re-creating an individual 'ecosystem' to sustain and shape you.

Constancy brings good fortune: steady, clear persistence in honouring what truly sustains you. Yi calls on you to see the jaws – to become aware. How do you habitually nourish yourself and others? What deep instincts are at work here? What real nourishment are you seeking?

Image

'Below the mountain is thunder: Nourishment.
A noble one reflects on his words in conversation,
And is discriminating about what he eats and drinks.'

Sequence

Nourishment follows from Hexagram 26, Great Taming.
'Things are tamed, and so there can be nurturing, and so Nourishment follows.
Nourishment means nurturing.'

Pair

Nourishment is paired and contrasted with Hexagram 28, Great Exceeding:
'Nourishment nurtures correctly;
Great Exceeding overbalances.'

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