Hexagram 27 line 6: Nourishment, yang in the sixth place

What changes when line 6 moves

Line 6 of Hexagram 27 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 24, Return: The turning point: light returns after the darkest day, and the beginning must be treated gently.

Read together, the reading moves from Nourishment toward Return. What you feed, and what feeds you: attention to nourishment, of the body, the mind and others. Thunder below, earth above: movement stirring under the ground at the winter solstice. One yang line has entered at the bottom beneath five yin lines. The primary hexagram describes the situation; the changing line is the point of movement in it; the resulting hexagram is where that movement leads. Both hexagrams belong to the reading, and the changing line is the hinge between them.

Hexagram 27 changing to 24 →

Line 6 in context

Love & relationships

You are the source; carry it with awareness and you can undertake great things. In love and relationships, Hexagram 27 reads: Ask what each of you feeds the other: attention, kindness, honest speech, or the opposite. The reading asks you to look at the diet of the relationship, and to be careful with words, which nourish or poison more than anything.

Career

You are the source; carry it with awareness and you can undertake great things. In career, Hexagram 27 reads: What sustains you at work, and what you are sustaining. Feed your competence with real learning, not gossip; support the people who depend on you properly. The reading warns against seeking nourishment from the wrong source.

Money

You are the source; carry it with awareness and you can undertake great things. In money, Hexagram 27 reads: Money as sustenance, not display. Spend on what feeds you and yours, be moderate, and be wary of dependence on a source that does not deserve trust. Look at what your money is feeding.

A decision

You are the source; carry it with awareness and you can undertake great things. In decisions, Hexagram 27 reads: Decide by asking what the option will nourish. The choice that feeds something worthwhile, in you or in others, is the right one; the one that only fills the mouth is not.