Development

The tree on the mountain: gradual progress whose slowness is its strength.

Xun: wind through bamboo — Upper trigram · Xun

Gen: still mountains — Lower trigram · Gen

A tree grows on the mountainside — visible to all, hurried by none. Development praises the gradual: the wild goose in the old text approaches the shore, the cliff, the high plateau by ordered stages, each stage a real position. Its counsel is ceremonious patience — let the process mature through its proper steps, as marriages and reputations do, and decline shortcuts that skip a stage. What grows this way stands where quick plantings lean.

On wealth

Let the venture pass through its natural stages in order; each consolidated step is worth three skipped ones.

Cast your own hexagram?

This is one hexagram of sixty-four. Three coins, six throws — bring a question and see which lines answer you, changing lines and all.

Cast the I Ching

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