Broomcorn millet is shu, one of China’s earliest grains and once the "Lord of All Grains." It appears in oracle bone inscriptions, on royal sacrificial altars, and in the folk songs of the Classic of Poetry. Slow-growing, dense-grained, deep-colored, cold-resistant, and drought-tolerant—it has grown silently on the northern loess for millennia, steadily looking after human stomachs and roots. Just like The Hermit, it refuses to waver in silence and solitude, seeking eternal truth within time.
Guidance, wisdom in solitude, introspection, contemplation, isolation, a cautious and painful path, adversity, spiritual guidance, following the truth, refusing to give up, keeping a low profile. Fate, luck, natural laws, probability, necessity, change, new situations, progress. Fairness, justice, scales, judgment, consequences of actions, power of karma, flexible handling of affairs under the premise of ensuring fairness.
Can represent self-isolation, lack of reflection, fear of the world and others, refusal to progress, aimless chaos. Wheel of Fortune Resistance to fate, unable to move forward, self-closure, or force majeure that can cause huge changes. Justice Partiality, injustice, evasion of responsibility, imbalance, chaos, legal disputes, moral corruption.
