Hexagram 27: Nourishment

To understand what this period brings you, look at the parts this sign is built from.

A time has come when you can act freely inside yourself, but what you begin in the outer world will meet obstacles.

In other words, you are again in a situation where you have to act at your own risk, without counting on help from outside. Think of your path as a search for food for the mind and the soul.

The right move is to go both up and down: up toward your goal, and deep into yourself, finding new qualities and discovering new abilities. This is hard, but you need it to grow.

The way you used to push forward has to stop for a while. If you insist on your own way and act as if nothing has changed, you will soon see that you have come to a standstill.

You have to adapt to the changed conditions, so that you do not slide back to where you were before.

People around you

The change will affect your relationships with the people around you more than anything else. You cannot count on help from outside right now, and you have to manage on your own. So it is worth keeping contact with friends and colleagues to a minimum.

Work and rest

Try to use this period for your own good: go back over your old plans and correct them. On your own you may see opportunities you did not notice before.

Balance work and rest sensibly. If you cannot divide your time between the two, it can lead to exhaustion and strained nerves. Look again at your daily routine.

Do not expect everything to work out by itself. Organize your time with skill. Waste fewer days and hours on things that bring nothing to your soul and mind. Then your results will be better than anything you expected.

Your wish

Your wish will certainly come true, but not all at once. It will come in parts, and you will have to wait for the last of it. Do not be sorry about that. In the end everything will turn out more beautiful than you imagined at the start.