I Ching - No 53 - Chien - 'Gradual Development', by Faye Edmondson

This is the original watercolour painting. Picture size 75cm H x 62cm W.

*All the original works are mounted in black painted wooden frames and glazed.

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Interpretation.

A tree on a mountain is visible from afar and its development influences the landscape of the entire region. It does not shoot up like a swamp plant, its growth proceeds gradually.

The keynote of the hexagram is patience and hasty or premature action is discouraged. The situation is compared to the traditional period of engagement before marriage. The various formalities must be disposed before the marriage takes place.

Within the personality too, development must follow the same path if lasting results are to be achieved. Gentleness that is adaptable, but at the same time penetrating, is the outer form that proceeds from inner calm.