Hexagram 27: Yí (Nourishment) · Takashima Ekidan

山雷颐 · 第 27 卦 · 中文版

Mountain over Thunder, Nourishment. Nourishment: Correctness is auspicious. Obse...

Recorded Cases (8)

A friend came to me and said: “I secretly have a request. I wish to go in person to call on a promin (Nine at the beginning: Abandon your numinous tortoise and gaze at my drooping jaws. Misfortune.)
A friend, a physician named Ito, had a son conducting business in Yokohama. One day Ito came to visi (Six in the second place: Inverted nourishment; violating the constant path at the hill of nourishment. Going forward is ominous.)
In the twenty-fifth year of Meiji, a divination was made concerning the fortunes of the nation, and (Six in the third place: Violating nourishment. Correctness is ominous. For ten years, do not use it; there is nowhere favorable to go.)
A certain friend, engaged in commerce and living in comfort, had one son. Throughout his life he reg (Six in the third place: Violating nourishment. Correctness is ominous. For ten years, do not use it; there is nowhere favorable to go.)
Mr. Matsumoto Ikuro, councillor in the Home Ministry, was about to travel to Nobi on official busine (Six in the fourth place: Reversing nourishment, good fortune. Watching like a tiger, its desires pursuing one after another; no blame.)
A certain friend came and asked for a divination concerning a prominent person. Nurturing changing t (Six in the fourth place: Reversing nourishment, good fortune. Watching like a tiger, its desires pursuing one after another; no blame.)
In the Mid-Autumn Festival of the tenth year of Meiji, Fukuda Gyokai, chief priest of Zojōji Temple (Six in the fifth place: Reversing the norm, dwelling in uprightness brings good fortune; one must not cross the great river.)
Every year on the winter solstice, I make it a regular practice to divine the auspiciousness or inau (Top nine: Through nourishment, danger becomes auspicious. It is favorable to cross the great river.)

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