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The rain has gone away and it's a sunny day out there.
I like the look and smell of everything after it's rained.
I'm about to get out and do some stuff.

I lack motivation right now to put anymore in, so I present to you last night's I-Ching:
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#9 - Hsiao Ch'u / The Taming Power of the Small

This hexagram means the force of the small--the power of the shadowy--that restrains, tames, impedes. A weak line in the fourth place, that of the minister, holds the five strong lines in check. In the Image it is the wind blowing across the sky. The wind restrains the clouds, the rising breath of the Creative, and makes them grow dense, but as yet is not strong enough to turn them to rain. The hexagram presents a configuration of circumstances in which a strong element is temporarily held in leash by a weak element. It is only through gentleness that this can have a successful outcome.
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Nine in the fifth place means:
If you are sincere and loyally attached,
You are rich in your neighbor.

Loyalty leads to firm ties because it means that each partner complements the other.
In the weaker person loyalty consists in devotion, in the stronger it consists in trustworthiness.
This relation of mutual reinforcement leads to a true wealth that is all the more apparent because it is not selfishly hoarded, but is shared with friends.
Pleasure shared is pleasure doubled.