Zhouyi BenyiGreat Image
These two are the pressing duties of nourishing virtue and nourishing the body.
Hexagram of the Day Tuesday, June 30, 2026: #27 Nourishment (颐)
Each calendar day maps deterministically to one hexagram — the day's position in a continuous 64-day rotation through the King Wen sequence. No casting, no randomness.
Modern reading
Hexagram 27 centers on the principles of proper nourishment, self-cultivation, and discernment in what one consumes and produces. Classical tradition advises moderating speech to nurture virtue and regulating intake to sustain body and mind.
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I Ching / BaZi reading request (from eastalmanac.com). Page: Daily hexagram 2026-06-30: #27 Nourishment. Interpret through classical principles in two layers: 1) Structural Evidence: identify key line dynamics, changing line pivot, or element balance. 2) Actionable Verdict: direct answer to the inquiry in plain language, followed by 2–3 concrete next steps (action-verb first) and mindful cautions. Grounded wisdom for self-reflection. Source page: https://eastalmanac.com/daily-hexagram/2026-06-30/
BaZi chart
The structural interaction of wood beneath earth reflects inner movement resting quietly beneath containment, emphasizing a balanced circulation of vitality.
In four-pillars analysis, when creative output is grounded by steady restraint, innate talents translate into lasting sustenance rather than exhausted potential. Nurturing your core foundation and moderating outward exertion will keep your life structure resilient and stable.
Western astrology chart
Astrological configurations highlight sectors of self-sustenance, inner grounding, and resource management over impulsive external ventures. Traditional chart readings treat this transit as an invitation to consolidate personal vitality and establish sustainable everyday rhythms.
Directing your focus inward right now builds the durable stamina needed for future growth.
I Ching casting
With thunder stirring below and the mountain keeping still above, the hexagram visually resembles an open jaw, symbolizing what one takes in and what one expresses.
The Judgment advises observing how nourishment is sought and ensuring that one's source of sustenance aligns with upright principles. True stability comes from cultivating genuine self-reliance rather than relying on unvetted external support.
Career
Professional advancement under this hexagram depends on deepening essential competencies and exercising discretion in corporate communications. The Great Image tradition warns that unguarded speech harms reputations, making disciplined expression a vital workplace asset.
Honing your core craft quietly will give you an irreplaceable competitive edge.
Wealth
Financial stewardship calls for strict expenditure control and preserving established reserves rather than chasing speculative windfalls.
Classical principles caution against overreaching, noting that self-sufficiency serves as the strongest defensive buffer against market turbulence. Living within your means and reinforcing your base creates lasting security.
Love & relationships
Relationship dynamics flourish through dependable daily care and attentive listening rather than grand, unsustainable gestures. Traditional commentary underscores that measured, thoughtful words prevent avoidable friction and foster mutual emotional nourishment.
Genuine warmth and considerate communication will keep your partnership thriving over the long term.
Health
Symbolizing the mouth and digestive tract, this hexagram classically links physical well-being to balanced eating habits and emotional moderation. Traditional wellness lore stresses that regulating meal routines and easing digestive strain prevents the depletion of vital energy.
Listening to your body's baseline needs and avoiding overindulgence will keep your energy levels steady.
Personal growth
Personal maturation shifts focus from craving external approval to cultivating inner substance and discernment. By filtering out distracting noise and paying close attention to what feeds your intellect, you develop real inner authority.
Cultivating a calm, self-contained mindset protects you against external chaos.
Compatibility
Compatibility thrives when two individuals share similar lifestyle rhythms, mutual respect, and ethical standards regarding give-and-take. When communication remains measured and neither partner demands excessive emotional reassurance, mutual trust deepens naturally.
Practicing mutual restraint and authentic care makes the relationship sustainable.
Fortune periods
Entering a macro phase marked by Hexagram 27 signals a strategic window for consolidation, training, and building reserve strength. Rushing into unfamiliar expansions prematurely risks exhausting your reserves before the groundwork is complete.
Focusing on foundational preparation will yield dependable dividends when the time is right.
Annual reading
The year's climate favors internal consolidation, refining existing operations, and avoiding unvetted commitments. Classical interpretation suggests that keeping your intentions grounded and strengthening internal capacities yields the most durable security.
Staying disciplined and self-reliant throughout the year ensures steady progress.
Name analysis
Nomenclature aligned with this hexagram incorporates concepts of composure, benevolence, steady containment, and self-reliance. Characters evoking the quiet strength of earth and the renewing spark of wood foster an ethos of disciplined nourishment.
A name balanced in this manner supports a composed and enduring personal presence.
Date selection
Auspicious timings under this hexagram favor rest, study, restorative retreats, or formalizing conservative long-term pacts rather than aggressive launches. Aligning activities with the principle of movement grounded in quiet restraint minimizes friction and conserves vitality.
Scheduling around tranquil, grounding moments ensures your endeavors take firm root.
Feng Shui
Spatial energy centers upon the kitchen, dining areas, and quiet personal chambers, which govern the intake and preservation of vital energy.
Classical feng shui recommends keeping eating spaces warm and clean while shielding living quarters from harsh drafts or chaotic thoroughfares. Creating a peaceful, well-ordered domestic environment naturally restores household vitality.
References
Original text
Judgment
Î indicates that with firm correctness there will be good fortune (in what is denoted by it). We must look at what we are seeking to nourish, and by the exercise of our thoughts seek for the proper aliment.
Tuan commentary
‘Î indicates that with firm correctness there will be good fortune:’—when the nourishing is correct, there will be good fortune. ‘We must look at what we are seeking to nourish:’—we must look at those whom we wish to nourish.
‘We must by the exercise of our thoughts seek the proper aliment:’—we must look to our own nourishing of ourselves. Heaven and earth nourish all things. The sages nourish men of talents and virtue, by them to reach to the myriads of the people.
Great is (the work intended by this) nourishing in its time!
Great Image
(The trigram representing) a mountain and under it that for thunder form Î. The superior man, in accordance with this, (enjoins) watchfulness over our words, and the temperate regulation of our eating and drinking.
Classical commentary
Yichuan YizhuanGreat Image
The Order of the Hexagrams for Yi (The Corners of the Mouth / Nourishment) says: 'Only after things are accumulated can they be nourished; hence it is received with Yi.'
Once things are accumulated, there must be a way to nourish them; without nourishment they cannot endure or grow. This is why Yi follows The Taming Power of the Great.
In this hexagram, Keeping Still (Mountain) is above and The Arousing (Shock, Thunder) is below; the two yang lines at top and bottom enclose four yin lines within, still above and moving below, solid without and hollow within: it is the image of the human jaws and cheeks.
Yi means nourishment. The human mouth is that through which food and drink nourish the body, hence it is named Yi.
The sage created the hexagram to extend the meaning of nourishment: on a grand scale, heaven and earth nourish the myriad things, and the sage nourishes the worthy to reach the myriad people; along with human nurturing of life, nourishing the physical form, cultivating virtue, and nourishing others, all belong to the way of nourishment.
Regulating movement and rest nurtures life; food, drink, and clothing nourish the physical form; dignified bearing and practicing righteousness cultivate virtue; extending oneself to others nourishes people. 'Yi: Perseverance brings good fortune.
Observe the corners of the mouth; seek nourishment by one's own mouth.' The way of Yi brings good fortune through rectitude. When humans nourish the body, cultivate virtue, nourish others, and are nourished by others, doing so through the correct path brings good fortune.
The creative transformations of heaven and earth nourishing the myriad things, each attaining what is fitting, is likewise nothing other than rectitude.
'Observe the corners of the mouth; seek nourishment by one's own mouth': observing whom one nourishes and how one seeks provisions for oneself reveals goodness and evil, good fortune and misfortune.
'The Commentary on the Decision says: Yi brings good fortune through perseverance: nourishing what is correct brings good fortune.
Observing the corners of the mouth means observing what one nourishes; seeking nourishment by one's own mouth means observing how one nourishes oneself.' 'Perseverance brings good fortune': when what is nourished is correct, there is good fortune.
'What is nourished' refers to the persons one nourishes and the way of nourishing them. 'Seeking nourishment by one's own mouth' refers to the way one seeks to nourish one's own body. When all are done with rectitude, there is good fortune.
'Heaven and earth nourish the myriad things; the sage nourishes the worthy to reach the myriad people. Great indeed is the time of Yi!' The sage speaks exhaustively of the way of nourishment and praises its greatness.
The way of heaven and earth is to nurture the myriad things, and the way to nurture the myriad things is simply rectitude.
The sage nourishes worthy talents, sharing heavenly positions with them and granting them heavenly emoluments so that they dispense benefits to all under heaven; nourishing the worthy reaches the myriad people.
Nourishing the worthy is the means by which the myriad people are nourished. Amid heaven and earth, among the multitude of things, none can live without nourishment.
The sage regulates the way of heaven and earth and assists their fitness to nourish all under heaven; even birds, beasts, grass, and trees have policies to nurture them.
His way matches heaven and earth, so the Master extends the way of Yi, praising the deeds of heaven, earth, and the sage, saying: 'Great indeed is the time of Yi!'
Some texts mention 'meaning,' some mention 'application,' while here it simply says 'time,' because of its supreme greatness. In the generation and nourishment of the myriad things, time is paramount; hence it says 'time.'
In terms of the two constituent trigrams, there is thunder beneath the mountain. Thunder rolls beneath the mountain, and the living things of the mountain stir their roots and sprout their shoots; this is the image of nourishment.
In terms of above and below, Keeping Still (Mountain) is stillness and The Arousing (Shock, Thunder) is movement; stillness above and movement below is the image of the jaws and chin.
In terms of the hexagram figure, the two yang lines above and below contain four yin lines in the middle, solid without and hollow within: it is the image of the mouth. The mouth is that which nourishes the body.
Therefore, the noble person observes this image to cultivate his person: he is cautious in his speech to cultivate his virtue, and temperate in eating and drinking to nourish his body.
The meaning of nourishment is not drawn merely from the mouth; among things closest to oneself yet bearing the greatest consequences, none surpass speech and diet.
In oneself it is speech; in the realm, all decrees, policies, and teachings that issue from oneself are speech: being cautious in them ensures they are fitting and without fault.
In oneself it is eating and drinking; in the realm, all commodities, resources, and wealth used to support people are food and drink: regulating them ensures they are suitable and harmless.
Extending the way of nourishment to cultivating virtue and caring for the world, it is always thus.
Zhouyi ZhuGreat Image
Even speech and diet must be guarded with caution and moderation, how much more so all else?
Zhouyi ZhengyiJudgment
The Correct Meaning says: As for 'Yi: perseverance brings good fortune,' in an age of nourishment, nourishing this upright perseverance brings good fortune. As for 'observing the corners of the mouth,' Yi means nourishment; it means observing what the sage nourishes.
As for 'seeking nourishment by one's own mouth,' it means observing how one nourishes oneself and seeks food to fill one's mouth.
Zhouyi ZhengyiTuan commentary
From "The Commentary on the Decision says" to "Great indeed!" The Correct Meaning says: "Yi brings good fortune through perseverance: nourishing what is correct brings good fortune" explains the meaning of "Yi: perseverance brings good fortune."
Yi means nourishment; zhen means rectitude. When what is nourished attains rectitude, there is good fortune.
The phrasing "nourishing rectitude" encompasses two meanings: first, nourishing the worthy, which is "nourishing what is upright," hence below it says "the sage nourishes the worthy to reach the myriad people"; second, nourishing oneself with rectitude, hence the Image says "careful of speech, temperate in eating and drinking."
Spoken in this way, the phrase "nourishing rectitude" combines the meanings of nourishing the worthy and nourishing oneself. "Observing the corners of the mouth means observing what one nourishes" explains the meaning of "observing the corners of the mouth."
It means those below observe whom those above nourish, hence it says "observing the corners of the mouth means observing what one nourishes."
"Seeking nourishment by one's own mouth means observing how one nourishes oneself" explains the meaning of "seeking nourishment by one's own mouth."
It means people below observe those above seeking food to fill their mouths, which is observing their self-nourishment; thus those below observing those above carries two aspects: if those nourished are worthy and self-nourishment is temperate, their virtue is abundant; if those nourished are unworthy and self-nourishment exceeds proper measure, their virtue is wicked.
The intent of this hexagram is to make nourishment succeed, not fail. "Heaven and earth nourish the myriad things": from here onward, it broadly explains the greatness of nourishment in the hexagram Yi, hence saying "heaven and earth nourish the myriad things."
"The sage nourishes the worthy to reach the myriad people": one must first nourish the worthy before one can nourish the people, hence saying "nourishes the worthy to reach the myriad people."
The sage merely nourishes worthy persons to govern the multitude, and the multitude all obtain peace, as Shun had five ministers, King Wu of Zhou had ten, Emperor Gaozu of Han had Zhang Liang, and Duke Huan of Qi had Guan Zhong.
These are all instances of nourishing worthy persons as aides, whereby governance was sound, the era peaceful, and the myriad commoners delighted; this is the nourishment of "the sage nourishes the worthy to reach the myriad people."
"Great indeed is the time of Yi!": because the Commentary on the Decision has already fully explained the meaning of Yi in principle, leaving no surplus idea, it does not say "meaning," but directly proclaims "Great indeed is the time of Yi!"
Because what is nourished is vast, it says "Great indeed!"
Zhouyi ZhengyiGreat Image
The Correct Meaning says: The mountain rests still above, and thunder stirs below. The function of Yi consists in movement below and stillness above; hence it is said, 'Beneath the mountain there is thunder: Yi.'
Human speech, chewing, eating, and drinking are all actions of moving the jaws; therefore, the noble person contemplates this image of Yi to be cautious in words and temperate in food and drink.
Ancient scholars said: 'Disaster issues from the mouth; affliction enters through the mouth.' Thus, in the matter of nourishment, one must be cautious and temperate.