Hexagram 2 Receptivity is the completion of creativity. Yield. Remain flexible. Be devoted to your ideas so that they will bloom. Honor your dreams. Nourish what you find there. Act like a mother giving birth. Protect. Respond. Let others take the lead for now.

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Situation:

Receptivity is the completion of creativity. Yield. Remain flexible. Be devoted to your ideas so that they will bloom. Honor your dreams. 

Nourish what you find there. Act like a mother giving birth. Protect. Respond. Let others take the lead for now.

Prescription:

1.     Begin the work slowly, with caution. Let things solidify. While you can’t walk on water you can when it turns to ice.

2.    Be organized. Remain calm and follow your natural way of being in your own personal pattern. You possess within you now everything that you need

3.   Keep your work hidden for a while. Let things develop in their own time. Trust your process. Don’t look for recognition now. 

4. Remain reserved. Incubate. If necessary, hide for a while. Think of yourself like being pregnant. Something will be born.

5.   Be reliable, discrete, genuine, and solid like gold. Patience will be rewarded.

6. Yield to your creativity. Don’t fight it. Don’t try to change anyone now. Remain open and accepting.

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