What is the aspect of the seasons, and what political changes are likely to take place?

What this is

The widest-looking of the thirty-two, the question that lifts its eyes from the single life to the turn of the seasons and the changes coming to the world. It asks after the times themselves. It carries the curiosity of one who would read the weather of the age.

What it governs

Opens the domain of the seasons and the world's affairs, the aspect of the times and the political changes likely to come. It governs the larger weather of the age rather than one person's fate.

Its properties

Its answers speak to the public and the cyclical rather than the private, the only one of the thirty-two that looks past the self to the world. It suits the querent who would understand the times they live in. Its honest use is to read the larger pattern with humility. Its shadow is using grand questions about the age to avoid the small, answerable ones about one's own conduct.

Where else it appears

The same note is the omen read for the harvest and the realm in every agrarian people, the augury sought before great public undertakings, the figure cast on the fortunes of the state. Across traditions those who would read the times have laid the world's affairs before the pattern.

Where you meet it on the Oracle

Choosing this question routes your Sign of 32 to a verbatim answer about the aspect of the seasons and coming political changes. It binds to the Sheaf of Corn for the season's yield, the Comet for upheaval in the affairs of states, and the Banner for the cause that rises. Read its folio as a forecast of the weather of the age.

Why it matters

It stands fifteenth because no life is lived apart from its times, and the oracle must speak to the larger pattern as well as the small. It asks you to read the season of the world and to set your own course within it.

Correspondences

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15