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Hexagram 11, Flow

Key Questions

How will you work with this extraordinary potential?
How can you channel the flow of energy to create harmony?

Oracle

'Flow. Small goes, great comes.
Good fortune, creating success.'

Flow is a sign of the free and full expression of tremendous creative energy. It is the name of China's most sacred mountain, Tai, which is imbued with spiritual power. The king would make great offerings at its summit to establish a flourishing, peaceful relationship with Heaven. This is a time to create harmony with the greater flow, letting its energy pour into creative manifestation, as a river flows down into a fertile valley. Pettiness is swept away downstream, and the way opens for free communication. Great things become possible. The true scale of things is revealed, dwarfing your smaller concerns. You sense the powers that surge through your life, and know how far beyond your control they are – yet you can enter into true relationship with them and participate in Flow.

Image

'Heaven and Earth communicate: Flow.
The prince enriches and completes the way of heaven and earth,
Upholds and assists the order of heaven and earth,
To support and protect the people.'

Sequence

Flow follows from Hexagram 10, Treading:
'Treading and also Flow, and then there is peace. And so Flow follows. Flow means flowing together.'

Pair

Flow is paired and contrasted with Hexagram 12, Blocked:
'Blocked and Flow are of opposite kind.'

Changing Lines

Line 2

'Embracing emptiness, use this to cross the river.
Not distancing yourself from what you leave behind,
Friends disappear.
Gaining honour, moving to the centre.'

Line 3

'There is no level ground without a slope,
No going out without a return.
Constancy in hardship is no mistake.
Do not sorrow about its truth.
In eating and drinking there is blessing.'

Line 6

'The bulwarks fall back into the moat – don't use the army.
From your own city, declaring the mandate.
Constancy means shame.'


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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