Approach in Growth

A favourable stretch is arriving, and you can feel it approaching — clarity returning, opportunities for growth drawing near, energy coming back into the work. Approach is double: the good approaching you, and you approaching the world with the image's inexhaustible generosity — teaching yourself patiently, tolerating your own rough patches, carrying the parts of you still forming as the earth carries the lake. Within, approach means clarity: seeing through your situations to their underlying reality, keeping your judgment free of emotional colouring, and letting intuition guide you rather than only external advice. Line 1's rising tide carries you, but keep your feet — don't let the hope and excitement sweep away the principles that got you here.

The next step is to spend the growing light and not defer it — the one thing the eighth month never forgives is having done nothing while the season lasted. Line 2 promises that in true alignment everything furthers: the pleasant advances you, the difficult instructs you, and nothing arrives that can't be turned to growth — so hold your discipline through whatever comes. Line 5 adds the wisdom of not forcing: know what not to do yourself, trust the deeper current, and practise the restraint that lets things unfold. And line 3 names the trap of a rising time — success softening into complacency, reserve let slip because things are going well. If you catch yourself slackening, genuine sorrow at it, acted on early, dissolves the fault entirely.