Stick Seventeen — Stick Seventeen · Gengchen, the Iron Beneath the Storm

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SteadyNothing dramatic. That is the news.

The storm rehearses over the hill.
Under the hill, the iron
goes on being iron.

Gengchen buries strong metal in storm-season earth: weather above, ore below. This stick reads material questions with a flat calm — surface conditions are noisy, and the underlying position is unmoved by them. The steady counsel is to distinguish the two deliberately: let headlines and moods pass overhead, and measure only what has actually changed in your own holdings. Mostly, the honest answer is: less than the sky suggests.

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