Hexagram 27 · line 6
Nourishment
頤Yí
The source of nourishment. Danger, yet favorable. Crossing the great river is beneficial.
Line statement
上九
由頤，厲吉，利涉大川。
The source of nourishment. Danger, yet favorable. Crossing the great river is beneficial.
The top line stands at the source of nourishment. When it yields, upper Mountain becomes Earth and the result is Hexagram 24, one firm beginning beneath receptive ground.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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