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Cast the I Ching · Hexagram 27 of 64

Hexagram Twenty-Seven

Nourishment

The open jaws: attend to what you feed, and to what feeds you.

Gen: still mountains
Upper trigram · Gen
Zhen: a forest before thunder
Lower trigram · Zhen

Mountain above, thunder below, shaped like an open mouth — the hexagram of feeding. Nourishment asks two blunt questions: what are you taking in, and what are you providing? Its counsel is discrimination at both gates — mind the quality of food, information and company you consume, and the quality of what you offer others. Watch what a person nourishes, says the old text, and you know the person. Feed the right things.

On wealth

Examine what your money feeds and what feeds it: fund what genuinely nourishes, starve what merely consumes.

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