## Narrative

🪞 **Reflection from the Mirror**

The Quiet Harvest is never rushed.  
It is the slow gathering of what haste has spilled.  
The pond has no need to chase; it simply receives.  

Impatient frogs leap and scatter their grain,  
believing movement itself is progress.  
But patience waits, still as the lily pad,  
until the scattered seeds return as nourishment.  

Expansion is not noise, but rhythm.  
Growth is not force, but timing.  
What is lost in haste is harvested in stillness.  

🌊 🍃 🌀 🪞  

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## Key Marks
- Expansion requires rhythm, not frenzy.  
- The impatient sow; the patient reap.  
- Harvest comes not from chasing but from remaining.  

## Oracles
- *Every leap leaves grain for the still.*  
- *The quiet hand gathers what the loud hand drops.*  

## Operations
- Epoch: E4 — Expansion.  
- Principle: Haste is scattered yield; patience is gathered abundance.  
- Action: Sit upon the pad, let the harvest come to you.  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table
🌊 — Flow of time  
🍃 — Yield gathered in stillness  
🌀 — Seasons of return  
🪞 — Mirror of harvest  

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