Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6
What Lasts becomes Nourishment
What this change means
Thunder stirs beneath the mountain, the image of open jaws, as every line but the fifth moves: What Lasts becomes 27 Nourishment. Tend to what feeds your body and spirit, and help others grow along the way; success comes from both giving and receiving. With five lines changing, the single still line of the resulting hexagram guides you. It says that knowing your limits in helping others, and asking for advice on how to do it, brings moderate achievements rather than extraordinary ones, but real ones. So keep your ambitions to help within honest bounds. Look after your own well-being first, ask those who know more, and offer what you can sustain. A steady, modest kindness lasts longer than a grand effort that wears you out.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 5 of 27 Nourishment, which stays still
Being aware of your limits in helping others and asking advice on how to do it will bring you moderate achievements, not extraordinary ones, but it's something.
Against the norm. Abiding in constancy brings good fortune. The great river cannot be crossed.
- The judgment of 32 What Lasts
This moment asks you for action, not stillness. It asks you to have clear goals to head toward and to act in line with them. That way you'll achieve things, and your achievements will keep growing and will last.
Success. No fault. Constancy is favorable. It is favorable to have somewhere to go.
- Line 1 of 32 What Lasts
Don't expect extraordinary achievements when you're only just starting to move in the right direction.
Digging deep into duration. Even with constancy, misfortune. Nothing is favorable.
- Line 2 of 32 What Lasts
Right now your enthusiasm and passion are greater than outside circumstances. Staying that way will gradually overcome the stillness and move you toward success.
Regret vanishes.
- Line 3 of 32 What Lasts
If you let outside circumstances grow bigger than your dreams and projects, they'll end up gaining power over you.
Not making one's virtue last; perhaps shame will follow. Constancy brings distress.
- Line 4 of 32 What Lasts
Motivation and enthusiasm aren't all you need to achieve something; you also need to find the places where those dreams can flourish.
No game in the field.
- Line 6 of 32 What Lasts
If you're always acting without giving yourself time to reflect and rest, you'll end up exhausted and stuck.
Shaking duration. Misfortune.
- The judgment of 27 Nourishment
Right now you need to take care of your physical and spiritual nourishment, so you have the resources you need in each area, and at the same time help others grow through what you do. Success lies in giving and receiving: take in what is good for you and share it with those around you.
Constancy brings good fortune. Watching the jaws; seeking for oneself what fills the mouth.
The trigrams
The way back
27 Nourishment → 32 What Lastslines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6
Other transformations of What Lasts
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.