Nourishment

I-Chinghex 27

Yí (頤) — Nourishment

Judgment: 頤 (hungry, open mouth; appetite; nourishment) · 貞 (persistence, determination, resolve, survival) · 吉 (is promising, auspicious, opportune, timely) · 觀 (watch, observe, behold, study; look at, to) · 頤 (the hungry mouth, jaws, oral behavior) · 自 (starting, beginning from original, with) · 求 (a, the search, quest, seek, hunt, craving) · 口 (to the mouth, the length of food chain) · 實 (to the substance, incorporation, feeding) Image: 山 (a, the mountain) · 下 (below, beneath; at the base, foot of) · 有 (is, there is) · 雷 (the thunder) · 頤 (hungry mouth) · 君 (a, the noble, worthy, honored) · 子 (young one, heir, disciple) · 以 (accordingly, therefore, thus) · 慎 (is mindful of, careful with, prudent in) · 言 (words, talk, speech, language) · 語 (and expression, discourse, discussions) · 節 (and restrained, moderate, temperate) · 飲 (in drinking; with drink) · 食 (and eating; food, nourishment) Line 1: 舍 (forsake, abandon, give up, letting go of) · 爾 (your) · 靈 (spirit, medicine, magic, mystery, divine) · 龜 (tortoise, turtle) · 觀 (and, while looking at, to, watching) · 我 (me, us) · 朵 (hanging open, down; with hang down) · 頤 (with hungry mouth; mouth) · 凶 (unfortunate, disappointing, unlucky, sad) Line 2: 顛 (abnormal, overwhelming, disproportionate) · 頤 (appetite, hunger, feeding, sustenance) · 拂 (dismiss, reject; shake, brushing off, aside) · 經 (the norms, al, standards; usual, customary) · 于 (and going to, into, up to, among, amidst) · 丘 (the hilltops, sides, mounds, high places) · 頤 (with hungry mouth, appetites; hungrying) · 征 (pressing; venturing, going boldly into) · 凶 (is misfortune, unfortunate; failure, pitfalls) Line 3: 拂 (dismissing, rejecting; brushing off, aside) · 頤 (the hungry mouth, appetites, hungering) · 貞 (persistence, determination, resolve) · 凶 (is unfortunate, unlikely, has pitfalls) · 十 (for ten) · 年 (years, harvests) · 勿 (not to be, to be, of being not at all) · 用 (useful, practical, functional, available) · 無 (this is no, not; this lacks, has no) · 攸 (a direction, purpose; an aim, orientation) · 利 (with merit, of value, with rewards) Line 4: 顛 (abnormal, overwhelming, disproportionate) · 頤 (appetite, hunger) · 吉 (is promising, auspicious, opportune, timely) · 虎 (a, the tiger) · 視 (looks, watches, observes, studies, searches) · 眈 (staring, glaring) · 眈 (and staring, glaring; with fixed gaze) · 其 (with its own; it, this is a) · 欲 (passion, desire, longing, lust, hunger, want) · 逐 (is to hunt, pursue) · 逐 (and give chase, run wild) · 無 (but no; not; nothing; without, with no) · 咎 (blame; is wrong; a mistake, an error) Line 5: 拂 (dismissing, rejecting; brushing off, aside) · 經 (the norms, standards, usual, customary) · 居 (to practice; abide, dwell in; abiding) · 貞 (persistence, determination, resolve, truth) · 吉 (is promising, auspicious, hopeful, timely) · 不 (but one is not, less than, ill-, un-, dis-) · 可 (suited, likely, fit, inclined) · 涉 (to, for cross, ford, ferry, venturing) · 大 (the great, big, major) · 川 (stream, river, current, waters) Line 6: 由 (at, as a, the source, origin, beginning of) · 頤 (the appetites, hungering, as food itself) · 厲 (distress; difficult, harsh, brutal, serious) · 吉 (but promising, hopeful, positive) · 利 (it is worthwhile, rewarding, favorable) · 涉 (to cross, ford, ferry, venture, experience) · 大 (the great, big, major) · 川 (stream, river, current, waters)

Zhù Jī (築基) is the preliminary stage of Neidan (internal alchemy) in which the practitioner stabilizes the body-mind through regulation of diet, sleep, breath, and sexual energy. The body is treated as the alchemical laboratory — the furnace (lú 爐) and the cauldron (dǐng 鼎) must be prepared before any transmutation of the Three Treasures (sān bǎo: jing, qi, shen) can begin. Daoist texts such as the Cantong Qi and later Quanzhen manuals insist that without this foundation, attempts at higher refinement scatter the practitioner's qi rather than consolidate it.

I-Chinghex 27

Thunder (☳) — Arousing

One of the eight fundamental trigrams. Thunder (☳) represents Arousing — the shock of movement that initiates action. A single yang line erupts beneath two yin lines, the first son, the sudden awakening that sets things in motion.

I-Chinghex 27

Mountain (☶) — Keeping Still

One of the eight fundamental trigrams. Mountain (☶) represents Keeping Still — the power of stillness, meditation, and the boundary that defines. A yang line rests atop two yin lines, the third son, the gate between worlds.