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Hexagram 27 / 64 · Practice

Hexagram 27Nourishment

Notice what you take in and what you give out.

/ Yi
UPPER: MOUNTAIN
LOWER: THUNDER

A modern reflection

A way to look at this moment.

Food is only one form of nourishment. Conversations, media, routines, and your own words also shape the quality of your days. Look at what genuinely sustains you, and at what you pass along to the people around you.

Sit with this question

What leaves you nourished, and what leaves you depleted?

One small practice.

Replace one draining input with something restorative for today.

The image & the structure.

This hexagram places mountain above thunder. The lower trigram evokes awakening movement; the upper trigram evokes a place to pause. Consider these as images to explore rather than instructions to follow.

The six lines are read from the bottom upward. A solid line is yang; a broken line is yin. In a coin reading, some lines may change and form a relating hexagram. A hexagram on its own does not specify which lines are changing.

Learn about changing lines →
This page contains original modern reflections, not a translation of the I Ching’s Judgment, Image, or individual line texts. Names vary between translations. About our sources and approach.