The Pressure

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What controls your element, in matching polarity — what forces you to grow before you are ready.

Also called the "seven killings", which tells you how the tradition feels about it. This is unstructured force applied to you: crisis, pressure, danger, demand.

It is also where resilience comes from. Charts with Pressure that the day master can carry produce people who perform under conditions that flatten everyone else. Charts with Pressure the day master cannot carry produce people who are exhausted by twenty-five.