Farm

A farm is read as sustained effort with an expected return — ground worked on a schedule rather than once. Cultivated Earth with a cycle attached. Traditional reading asks what season the work is in, since the farm's meaning is inherently cyclic.

Natural features are read by state and conditions. A farm is read as sustained effort with an expected return — ground worked on a schedule rather than once. Traditional readings look at whether it is calm or disturbed, near or distant. A farm being worked at night is a recorded variant, read as maintenance carried on outside its usual conditions.

Sources treat the farm as the image of maintenance rather than of a single effort, and neglect on a farm is read more severely than on open ground. It is grouped under Earth (土) in the five-element system.