Daily Signet

K’un over K’un hexagram

Earth above, earth below. K'un over K'un. 
Three broken lines over three broken lines. 
The Chinese hexagram for Yin or the receptive. 
Its attribute, devotion; its image, earth. 
Yin, the receptive.
Its power, in devotion, 
its glory, through reception. 
The creative initiates; 
the receptive gives birth. 

Three broken lines above.
Hear our prayer, O God.
Three broken lines below.
Use us. Use us. Use us.
K'un above—an asking in.
K'un below—a response of service. 

O Beloved Spirit,                                                 
Pair our need to be still, to listen, to receive 
with our longing to be more, to create, to achieve. 
Teach us the three broken lines above,
placed over the three broken lines below 
that we may channel the earth of us 
and give birth to the best of us.  Amen.                                              

Benjamin H. Martin

On This Day…

Percy Shelley born in Sussex, Eng., 1792, died 1822: Romantic poet
Works: “Ozymandias”, “Queen Mab”, “Adonais”
Quotes: “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”