The words you speak are like food – they go out into the collective stream and nourish others.
You draw nourishment from this same stream and therefore need to be discriminating about what you ingest.
Hexagram 27 of the I Ching, The Corners of the Mouth (Providing Nourishment) is our hexagram host for this next week of Taurus.
Taurus, a feminine earth sign ruled by Venus, is closely aligned with food and nourishment. The Empress is the tarot card associated with Taurus (note the Venus symbol to the left of her chair). See how she reclines and is not in a hurry. She looks ready to receive and provide nourishment in a discerning way.
The nourishment of this hexagram is more than just food. It includes physical, intellectual, spiritual, social, and more.
Even your shadow is a form of nourishment. Robert Bly wrote about how we should “eat” our shadows:
So the person who has eaten his shadow spreads calmness, and shows more grief than anger. If the ancients were right that darkness contains intelligence and nourishment and even information, then the person who has eaten some of his or her shadow is more energetic as well as more intelligent.
A Little Book of the Human Shadow by Robert Bly
The nourishment you both provide and take in also speaks to your character:
If we wish to know what anyone is like, we have only to observe on whom he bestows his care and what sides of his own nature he cultivates and nourishes.
The I Ching or Book of Changes translated by Richard Wilhelm
Your tranquillity depends on it:
For tranquillity keeps the words that come out of the mouth from exceeding proper measure, and keeps the food that goes into the mouth from exceeding its proper measure, and keeps the food that goes into the mouth from exceeding its proper measure. Thus character is cultivated.
The I Ching or Book of Changes translated by Richard Wilhelm
This coming week is a suitable time to find some Empress moments and reflect, especially as we are winding down these last few days of Mercury retrograde in Aries:
What nourishment are you hungry for?
If you take in this nourishment, which sides of your nature will it cultivate and nourish?
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