I Ching,
hexagram 15=humility
transforming to hexagram 50=cauldron
Haiku (Goddess / Becoming)
1.
From the low ground
fire gathers into form—
all are nourished.
2.
Hollowed earth cauldron,
fire learns how to be strong
Everything is shared
3.
From the lower ground
fire rises without claim—
others are nourished.
4.
Unnoticed valley:
excess spills back to the earth.
The pot keeps us warm.
5.
Love of the low place—
fire climbs into the bowl,
All people are fed.
6.
What begins unseen
deflects the flood, and holds flame—
nourishing many.
7.
Hollowed by the stars
the cauldron lifts the fire bright
to feed the people, always.
Prose on the I Ching
From humility comes emptiness as capacity.
Like the ancient cauldron, the Goddess does not command; she receives.
The Hollowed space becomes nourishment, excess is deflected, and raw energy is transformed into cooperation and sustenance for the many.
What rises here does so from the low ground—earth-centered, ancestral, enduring.
This work arises from the low place, where becoming begins.
Here, humility is not virtue but openness—
a hollowing that allows energy to gather without command.
Like the ancient cauldron of earth cultures, this form does not rule or instruct.
It cooperates.
Fire, vessel, and offering shape one another, transforming excess into shared nourishment.
Nothing ascends alone. What becomes here does so through relation.
Art by Kate W 