Increase in Growth

You have a following wind, and a rare kind of freedom — inner and outer independence, momentum behind every worthy undertaking. This is the season to build large. But the same wind that fills good sails fills careless ones, so spend the increase on what deserves it. Line 1 makes the point: the blessing reaches even the lowest place, and it comes with a commission — help received obliges real effort, undertaken selflessly and on the scale the season permits. There is even room for error now; mistakes made in sincere effort correct themselves without harm in a time like this. So act, imitate every good you encounter, and evict every fault you find while the removing is easy.

The inner condition of a fortunate hour is a steady heart: keep free of the desires that both chaos and blessing stir up, and maintain your humility and conscientiousness as though the hard season had never ended. Line 3 holds the season's strangest gift — even the blows enrich now: adversity arriving in a time of increase carries instruction for the one who stays sincere and centred through it, turning loss into wisdom the way a storm turns to rain. The conditions are exact: sincerity, the middle path, and action taken as if commissioned rather than improvised. And line 5 names the summit — kindness become nature, so spontaneous it does not calculate returns or even ask whether it will be recognised, and precisely therefore is. Grow toward that unmeasuring goodness.