Hexagram 27 · line 1
Nourishment
頤Yí
You leave your sacred tortoise and watch my moving jaws. Misfortune.
Line statement
初九
舍爾靈龜，觀我朵頤，凶。
You leave your sacred tortoise and watch my moving jaws. Misfortune.
The bottom line leaves its own numinous tortoise to watch another mouth. When that firm base yields, lower Thunder becomes Earth and the figure is Hexagram 23, Mountain above Earth.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes