木
목(木)
the wood breath — quickening
What it means
木 is the breath of reaching and growing.
In the seasons it is spring; in the directions, the east.
It receives the bearing of 水 and bears 火; it receives the control of 金 and controls 土.
What the document says
The quickening breath runs over.
It wants much and looks to be acknowledged.
It spreads work out and does not tie it off.
Tie the knot and it goes to a great yield.
The quickening breath is right.
The force that reaches out and the kindness of mind are even.
It goes forward and still looks about it.
The quickening breath is shallow.
The force to begin and to press on is short, so things are put off.
It must start from the small work.
Green light and the morning fill that breath.
The quickening breath holds the balance.
The force to begin and to reach out lifts the fortune.
Green light and the east, the morning, and learning are of use.
A record born in the cold season.
In frozen ground the root must enter first, so it opens its breath by the force that reaches out.
Quicker to put out a shoot itself than to wait for spring.
A record born in the hot season.
What this seat needs is not shade but fuel.
Something to feed the fire so it does not go out, and a root to break the hardened ground.
A record born in a season that does not lean.
The season neither helps nor hinders, so the grain of reaching out must be set by itself.
Where it stands
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