Peace in Family

This is spring in the home, and heaven beneath earth is the arrangement that made it: strength held quietly at the centre, openness turned toward everyone. Be firm in yourself and receptive to them — settled in your own principles, unruffled at the surface. The work of leadership now is the small, unglamorous maintenance that keeps a good season going: the shared meal still cooked, the routine still honoured, the standard of how people speak to each other still upheld. Line 2 is the full job: bear gently with the difficult relative, act alone and decisively when the path needs it, attend to the ones on the edges, and lean on no faction inside the family. Hold all four and the household's goodness reaches everyone.

If a rift has softened — between siblings, across generations, with an in-law — meet the thaw the way line 4 counsels: come down without display. Drop the parade of who was right, the wealth of grievance kept in reserve; meet each other guileless and plain. Where you hold more standing or maturity, take the humbler posture (line 5): the sovereign gives his daughter modestly, and the union is blessed. Don't force resolution on your schedule, and don't grip the returning warmth so hard you strangle it. Line 3's truth belongs here too — no plain without a slope. Repair the tension now, gently, while the season allows it; a house at peace mends easily.