Stick Twenty-Seven — Stick Twenty-Seven · Gengyin, the Axe in Spring Wood

庚寅

TemperingA caution to keep — read as a lesson, not a verdict.

The axe is honest work in autumn.
In the month of green shoots,
let it hang on the wall.

A word of caution: Gengyin brings cutting metal into the month of tender wood — the tool is right, the season is not. The signal to watch is criticism landing on something newly grown: a fledgling idea, a person just finding their feet. Pruning now cuts growth that needed one more month. The homework is timing your honesty. This week, hold one piece of feedback until it is asked for, and notice what grows in the space.

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